Edwards Square 29.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 31B-82 Easthampton NTH.611 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 29 Edwards Square Historic Name: Uses:
Present: Single-family residence Original: unknown Date of Construction: c. 1870 Source: map of 1873 Style/Form: utilitarian Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim:
brick, clapboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Dormer added ca. 1930. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage:
0.133 acres Setting: This building is set near the railroad tracks on its east side. It is is in a neighborhood of later 19th century residences.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [29 EDWARD’S SQUARE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.611 ___ 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 small brick building of one-and-a-half stories. It is one room deep and two bays wide.
Its main architectural ornament is brick corbelling in the eaves rake. There is a hood resting on braces over the main entry and sash in the house is 1/1. A through-cornice dormer with
clapboard siding appears to have been added to the building ca. 1930. Despite its small size, the house has a chimney at each end. The 1980 attribution of a date in the 1830s is unwarranted,
as utilitarian buildings with similar corbelling were built through the 19th century. 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 small brick house predates all others on Edwards
Square. The street was laid out across the Breck and Whitney estates by Charles Stevens, a local developer. The 1873 Atlas shows this house in the rear of the Breck house at the corner
of King and Edwards (now North) Streets. It does not show on the earlier maps. However, stylistically the house seems to date from an earlier period, and is probably related to the Whitney
house, a brick Greek Revival house which stood next south of the corner house. Thus, the small house probably dates from the 1830s.” 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.