Arlington Street 29.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: PVPC Date (month /year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number
USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24C-151 Easthampton NTH.312 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 29 Arlington Street Historic Name: Charles and Lucretia M. Daniels
House Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1873-1884 Source: atlases Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage house Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no |
x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.191 acres Setting: This is an east-facing house set on a raised lot and shaded by mature trees.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [29 ARLINGTON STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.312 __x_ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much
space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate
the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This is the only Gothic Revival style house on Arlington Street and is a fine example of the style.
It is one-and-a-half stories in height under a steeply-pitched, front-gable roof. It has a transverse gable bay on the south elevation along with a three-sided bay window on a paneled
base, and there is a one-and-a-half story ell on the west. The east façade of the house is two bays wide preceded by a wrap-around porch that traverses both east and half of the south
elevations. The porch, now screened in, rests on posts with paneled pedestals decorated with small square bosses. Window and door surrounds are very unusual: they are crown molding in
high relief where one would typically find a label lintel. On the east façade the first floor window is full-length and has 2/2 sash. Dormers on the north and south elevations of the
main block of the house are through-cornice, front-gabled and have 2/2 Gothic Revival style lancet windows. The house has one interior chimney and there is a recessed side porch on the
north elevation of the ell. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s)
the owners/occupants played within the community. According to a Form B for this property from 1980, “In 1873 Lucretia Daniels, wife of Charles Daniels, bought lots no. 5 and 6 from
W. T. Clement’s subdivision plan of Arlington Street. This plan had been filed in 1871 and covered a short connector street between Franklin and Massasoit Streets. This house first appears
on the 1884 atlas and is occupied by Mrs. Daniels, who at this time is identified as a widow. “ However, in 1880 Charles and Lucretia were living here with their two teenaged sons Joseph
and Edgar and Charles was working as a machinist. Lucretia Daniels was here through 1917 as a widow, but by 1920 was no longer in Northampton. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F.
W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Hales, John G. Plan of the Town or Northampton in the County of Hampshire, 1831. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton
and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895. U.S. Federal censuses 1870-1920. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts,
Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860. Registry of Deeds. Book 305, page 316; Book 284, page 271. Northampton Directory 1885-1886, 1917.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [29 ARLINGTON STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.312 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Daniels House would contribute to a large residential/institutional potential historic district north of Northampton’s
Elm Street. This district is significant as a mixed rural area of gentlemen’s farms and smaller rural homes of Northampton’s farming/working residents at mid-19th century located on
and around Round Hill, which gave views and a romantic landscape to its residents. Several of these early houses remain from both ends of the economic spectrum. The district’s period
of greatest development occurred between 1880 and 1920 to house the largely upper middle class of Northampton, its factory owners and managers, educators, business and building owners
in downtown Northampton, its lawyers and doctors. Development after 1890 was relatively swift and the history of its residents is closely woven into the history of Northampton’s leaders
in government, commerce, education, and industry. The potential district north of Elm Street is architecturally significant for the several remaining houses in Georgian and Federal styles
but it is dominated by high style examples of the Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival. Many of its buildings were architect-designed by Northampton and
Springfield’s leading architects, and others constructed by its most prominent builder/contractors. This district has integrity of materials, workmanship, setting, and design.