Chestnut Avenue 46.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 11A-005 Easthampton NTH.29 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Leeds Address: 46 Chestnut Avenue Historic Name:
Nonotuck Silk Company Workers’s housing Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1873-1884 Source: atlases Style/Form: eclectic Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Entrance porch replaced, ca. 2005. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.506 Setting: House sits high on a corner lot above the mill village of Leeds.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [46 Chestnut Avenue] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.29 ___ 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 house represents the type of superior workers’s housing that the Nonotuck Silk Company constructed
for its management-level employees, and it is among a number of such houses in this section of Leeds. The house is gable-and-wing in plan, two-stories in height, and both the front-gable
and the wing are two bays wide. There is a one-and-a-half story ell on the west that has a side porch on posts that support a shed roof. In the northwest angle of the gable and the wing
is a two-story tower with a truncated mansard roof. It contains the entry to the house and has two rondel windows at second story level. Windows in the house have 2/2 wooden sash and
their surrounds are flat stock with a drip mold lintel. The same surround is found on the main entry. Stylistically, this house is eclectic as a combination of French Second Empire with
the mansard tower, and Italianate features such as its wide eaves overhang, and rondel windows. 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 house is located on a corner
lot in the subdivision planned by Nonotuck Silk Co. atop the hill overlooking the village of Leeds. William Moore, an overseer for the company, is listed here on the 1884 atlas.” 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.