Franklin Street 90.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 24C-141 Easthampton NTH.306 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 90 Franklin Street Historic Name:
George W. Smith House Uses: Present: Single-family residence, carriage barn Original: Single-family residence, shop, carriage barn Date of Construction: 1895-1905 Source: Atlases & Directory
Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, flushboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn
Major Alterations (with dates): Connector built between house and shop, ca. 1980. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.217 acres Setting: Set on a corner lot, this
house occupies half a block with its carriage barn, shop, and main house.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [90 FRANKLIN ST] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. 306 _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. This is a complex of buildings that suggests the appearance of some of the early 20th century crafts
persons’ establishments of Northampton. The Queen Anne style house is a two-and-a-half story building with a hipped roof from which project cross gables on the east, south and north.
It has a full-width porch on the east façade with a pediment marking the stair entry. The porch has has chamfered posts with scroll-cut brackets and an ornamental railing. A two-story
connector with a flat roof joins the south elevation of the house to a one-story entry that has been added to a former shop. The shop is one-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gabled
roof. It is flushboard-sided, a good advertisement for its original carpenter owner. It has a band of windows on its first floor and a shed roof addition on its south elevation contains
a garage. At the south end of the lot, and not in the attached picture, is a carriage barn that backs up to an embankment and has brick foundations that are part of the embankment. This
is actually a fairly rare survival of such a complex of buildings in good condition. 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 house was built around the turn of the century
and first appears on the 1915 atlas. George W. Smith, a mason and contractor, owned this property and is first listed here in the 1905 directory. There are several other similarly styled
houses near this house on Franklin Street and Mr. Smith was probably involved in constructing them. A side lot to his homelot contains two outbuildings used in his business.” 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 ] [90 FRANKLIN ST] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH. 306 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 Smith 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 Smith House is a fine example of the Queen Anne style.
This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.