Cherry Street 57.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: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-040 Easthampton NTH.2016 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 57 Cherry Street Historic Name: H.
Hutchins House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1785 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Federal Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: parged brick Wall/Trim: asbestos, tarpaper and wood shingles Roof: asphalt and wood shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with
dates): Wing added ca. 1900 Condition: poor Moved: no | | yes | x | Date 1830-1840 Acreage: 0.19 acres Setting: This house faces north and is set close to the street in a residential
neighborhood leading from the Bridge Street Cemetery.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [57 Cherry Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2016 ___ 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 a one-and-a-half story house under a side-gable, gambrel roof with a center chimney. It
is five bays wide and the outer windows are set more closely together than evenly spaced. The center entry has a four-light transom above its door. These are the characteristics of an
18th century Federal style house. Above each pair of windows and above the center door is a front-gabled dormer whose trim is not of the quality or apparent age of the house, suggesting
they were later additions. The house has at least three types of artificial siding and it has had the rear elevation of the roof raised to add an ell across the back of the building,
which changes its profile. Having been moved, the house rests on brick foundations that are higher than the original stone foundations would have been. Trim around the windows is 19th
century stock molding trim and the door has no visible surround. The portico on posts is a 20th century addition. Windows are 6/1. There is a one-story wing added on the east side of
the house, probably after 1900. The house has had considerable surface changes and some structural ones but its age is still apparent. 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. From the Form B of 1980,
“This gambrel-roofed roofed residence was originally located on the north side of Bridge Street. It was possibly built ca. 1785 as the homestead of Hezekiah Hutchins. During the 1820s
the property was purchased by the proprietors of St. John’s Episcopal Church to serve as the site for their church. It is reported that the house was given to James Buckman, who moved
it to its present site on Cherry Street. The Buckmans maintained this property until the late 1880s.” 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. 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 407 page 270; book 136 page 104; Book 107 Page 201; Book 104 page 32; Book 101 page 52; Book 62 page 123; Book 52 page 328; Book 44 page 405; Book
17 page 555; Book 16 page 131. Forbes Library: Photographic Collection-Hezekiah Hutchins House.