East Street 18.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 38B-118 Easthampton NTH.1034 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 18 East Street Historic Name: Second
Congregational Church Parsonage Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1894-95 Source: Registry of Deeds and atlas Style/Form:
Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards and shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.176 Acres Setting: House is located in a neighborhood of late 19th century houses on tree-shaded streets. Developed gardens are part of the
neighborhood’s landscape.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [18 EAST STREET ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1034 __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. The Second Congregational Parsonage was built with much of the élan of the Queen Anne style. It
is a two-and-a-half story house under a pyramidal hipped roof that is slate-covered. The house has scalloped shingles on the second story and gable ends, and clapboards on the first
story. Stringcourses, belt courses and other framing-type panels make of the building’s first story exterior a lively surface. The volume of the house is equally diverse. There is a
transverse gable bay on the east that extends only through the second story to be supported on a row of brackets. A second transverse gable is located on the west and a third at the
northwest corner of the house. A shed-roofed oriel is set between the second and third transverse gables at second story level. Clearly, the asymmetry of the Queen Anne style is at work
on this interesting house. A full-width porch crossed the north façade. It is supported on turned posts with brackets at its eaves. The house on the north is only two bays wide: an entry
and a large, fixed-light window. A small pediment on the porch roof marks the stair entry. 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: “Columbus Ave., with lots on both sides, was
filed on a subdivision plan in 1892. The street was opened through the South St. homestead of Elizabeth Clapp. The Clapp family is on of the oldest in the South St. area. Preserved Clapp
was granted land on the north side of the street, where today School St. and Fort Hill Terrace are. This land, obtained in 1661 when Preserved settled in Northampton, was to have served
as a homestead, however the “frontier” nature of Northampton prevented this. No settlement occurred west of the Mill River until 1696. Captain Roger Clapp, Preserved’s son, settled on
South Street in 1713. He occupied land on the south side of the street. Most of these lands remained in the Clapp family through the 19th century. During 1892, the Second Congregational
Society obtained lot #4 of this subdivision, and built this house as a parsonage. Rev. Richard A. Griffin is listed as residing here in the 1892-93 Directory.” 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: Bk.449-P.410, 449-319