Hancock Street 11.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32C-233 Easthampton NTH.2158 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 11 Hancock Street Historic
Name: Edwin Hervey House Uses: Present: Two family residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: 1886-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good Moved: no
| x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.155 acres Setting: House faces north onto a quiet residential street. House located in a residential neighborhood of mid to late 19th century homes. A few
shrubs and plantings line the foundation of the home. Mature trees are located throughout the property.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [11 HANCOCK STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2158 __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 two-and-a-half story Queen Anne style home with a modified cross gable roof. On the northern
elevation of the home, which faces the street, the western cross gable extends downward to cover the porch on the first story. The slope of this roof also has a dormer. This continuous
house roof-to-porch roof element is a Queen Anne style feature that can be found elsewhere in in the city. The house is clapboard sided with a variety of decorative elements added to
provide visual interest. Fish scale shingles are used to ornament various parts of the house such as the front dormer. Wide boards of wood form bands that extend around the façade. These
same wide boards are used as window surrounds. The one-story front porch wraps around to the western elevation of the home and is ornamented with a decorative frieze, carved posts, and
decorative balusters. The front entry features a multi-colored glass door beside which is a raised window single-paned window. Windows on the house are one over one sash and are replacements.
There is a small brick chimney on the frontward slope of the roof. On the eastern elevation of the home is a two-story narrow side wing that one bay deep and two bays wide. Towards the
rear of the home on the eastern elevation is a second story porch. 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: “Hancock Street was opened in 1873, across Ebenezar Hancock’s Hawley Street
homestead, but lots were only available on the northern side of the street. In 1886, lots were made on the southern side of the street through subdividing Harrison Apthorp’s Hawley Street
homestead. By 1895, the four houses that line the south side of the street today had been built. Nos. 11 and 15 are interesting variations on a single pattern. In 1895, his house was
owned and occupied by Edwin Hervey, a janitor at the County Courthouse.” Paul Duval owned the home in 2010. 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. 404-P. 131