Cross Street 14-16.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 22D-82 Easthampton NTH.155 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State village Address: 14-16 Cross Street
Historic Name: Nonotuck Silk Mills Workers’ Housing Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Two-family residence Date of Construction: 1860-1873 Source: Map and Atlas Style/Form:
no style Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added ca. 1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.873 acre Setting: This house faces north towards the Mill River and the factories of Florence. Its neighborhood
consists of workers’ housing of various forms.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [14-16 CROSS STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.155 ___ 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 double house is one of several workers’s houses in the industrial sections of Northampton
that have a two-and-a-half story center section under a side-gable roof, five bays wide and with kitchen wings at each side. The wings are one-and-a-half stories, are four bays wide,
and are also under side-gable roofs. There are rear enclosed porches on the south elevation. Sash in the the house is 2/2, though the building has been vinyl sided and details have been
lost. The entries to the two units are in the center bay of the main block. They are beneath a hipped roof porch that rests on posts. Window and door surrounds are flat stock, so the
building has little ornament and was modest in design, but relatively generous in space. 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: “This double house was built on lot no. 12 of
the 53-lot subdivision south of the Mill River opposite the Nonotuck Silk Mills and the Greenville Mfg. Co. It first appears on the 1873 atlas and was owned by the Nonotuck Co. throughout
the 19th century.” 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.