Elm Street 296.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 31A-81 Easthampton NTH.486 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 296 Elm Street Historic Name: Martha
D. Hartung House Uses: Present: Apartments Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1889-1890 Source: Deeds & street map Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes
| | Date Acreage: 0.18 acres Setting: House sits on a narrow city lot in alignment with its neighbors.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [296 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.486 ___ 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 Martha Hartung House is a Queen Anne style house that has a side-gable roof with a front cross-gable
and a corner tower. The complexity of the plan these features provided allowed the interior to be divided into spaces with particular purposes such as sewing rooms, nurseries, and pantries
where earlier houses had fewer spaces that were all-purpose. At the same time, the exterior exterior of the houses were made varied by patterns of clapboards and shingles as in the Hartung
House where projecting gables are laid with wave and drape-patterned shingles, where the wrap around porch rests on turned posts and scroll-cut brackets ornament the eaves, and lattice
work creates a porch apron. Some inconsistencies were accepted in order to provide space, such as the fact that the tower does not extend to ground level, but rests on top of the porch
roof. The house is three bays wide with a Queen Anne style window for the stair window, an entry, and a second, larger Queen Anne window with 2/2 sash with multiple lights around its
upper sash. Jetties appear in gables and on the west elevation and all rest on curved consoles. 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 1977:”Land in this area was surveyed and divided
into lots when Forbes Avenue was opened off Elm Street. Property was owned by Hammond and Sullivan, who owned considerable land in this part of the city. Lots were plotted in 1887 and
offered for sale. Lot # 9 was purchased by Martha Hartung in 1889. She built between 1889 and 1895, when the map of Northampton shows her as resident in this place.” 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: 427/541 & 517, 1906/22 & 23