Corticelli Street 53.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 22B-18 Easthampton NTH.145 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 53 Corticelli Street Historic Name:
J. Robinson House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: pre-1884 Source: 1884 Atlas Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.321 acre Setting: This is a west-facing house on a shady, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [53 CORTICELLI STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.145 _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 a Gothic Revival style house, one-and-a-half stories in height under a side-gabled roof
with a front cross-gable. The roofs of both sections of the house are steeply pitched and edged with ornamented bargeboards. The front cross-gable has an angled bay on its west façade
and in the north angle between the two sections of the house is a corner porch on a post with solid solid brackets under a shed roof. To add visual interest to the exterior of the house
there are shingles in the gable ends and cornerboards and stringcourses dividing the exterior. Corticelli Street has several Gothic Revival style houses and this house and the one at
#34 are among the best preserved. 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 Form B of 1980: “Prospect Street was laid out around 1860 atop the western terrace of the Mill River just above the
three water privileges that Florence developed around. The ’prospect’ is a fine view of the Florence meadows, extending westerly and northerly. The first owner of this house was James
Robertson, a foreman at the Florence Sewing Machine Company.” The atlas of 1884 indicates that J. Robinson lived in the house. 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [53 CORTICELLI STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.145 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. This house would contribute to a potential historic district, the Corticelli Street Historic District. Historically, this
street of houses was constructed to serve the workers of Florence in the Silk Mills, the Florence Sewing Machine Company, and the Florence Manufacturing Company. A narrative of their
occupants is a narrative of immigrants, laborers and their families that made up the 19th and 20th century history of Florence. Architecturally, this house is significant as a fine example
of the quality of workers’ housing in Florence and of the housing built by workers themselves in the latest styles with plenty of decorative features. Between 1860 and 1884 the Gothic
Revival, Italianate and Queen Anne styles were applied to virtually the same form building. The district has integrity of workmanship, materials, feeling, setting and design.