Franklin Street 38.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-23 Easthampton NTH.458 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 38 Franklin Street Historic Name: Churchill
House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: post-1831 Source: map of 1831 Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added, windows replaced, ca. 1990 Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.684 acres Setting: This is an east-facing house on a residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [38 FRANKLIN ST] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.458 _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. Although local tradition says that this is an 18th c. house, other than low foundations, it has
none of the features of such an early house. An investigation of its interior structure could determine whether there is any truth to this tradition. Today, it has the appearance of
a Colonial Revival style house, two-and-a-half stories high under a side-gable roof. It is three bays wide wide and the equivalent of three bays deep. Windows on the east façade are
Colonial Revival style being paired and on the second story evenly spaces single windows. Few late 18th century houses in the region were three bays wide and none had paired windows.
The entry is trabeated with narrow sidelights. A flat-roofed portico shelters the entry and is supported on chamfered posts. There is an exterior wall chimney on the south elevation
and three, pedimented dormers on the east side of the roof. Vinyl siding makes it difficult to determine whether there are additional details that would confirm a date. 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 1972: “This house was once part of the famous Round Hill School for boys, which operated from 1823 to 1834. It was the residence for the farmer who cared for the school’s
land, crops and livestock. The school was founded by George Bancroft (noted historian) and Joseph Green Cogswell. The house was later owned and occupied by Prof. and Mrs. Vance Churchill,
and was acquired in 1971 by the present owner.” 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 ] [38 FRANKLIN ST] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.458 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. The Churchill House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor,
Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few
gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years
to the present. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival
and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Churchill House is an example of the Colonial Revival style
and would contribute to the district despite its vinyl siding. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.