Hancock Street 16.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 32A-218-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 16 Hancock Street Historic Name:
Guido and Arcangela Zanone House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1920 Source: Northampton Street Directories and Sanborn Insurance
maps Style/Form: Prairie Style Architect/Builder: Guido Zanone, mason, attr. Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: stucco Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary
Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2005. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.103 acres Setting: This house faces south on a
quiet, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [16 Hancock Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. ___ 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 Prairie Style masonry house is two-and-a-half stories in height under a hipped roof that has wide eaves. Characteristic
of the style, it is asymmetrical in elevation with a band of windows at the second story set off-center and not in alignment with the band of first story windows. The house’s south facade
is two bays wide with a side porch on battered stucco posts adjacent to the band of windows. The heavy and geometric porch has a hipped roof and solid stucco railings. On the west elevation
an exterior wall chimney laces through the roof eaves. In a departure from the highest style versions of the Prairie style, this house has a centered, hipped roof dormer on its south
façade, which somewhat changes the horizontality that the style aimed for. 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 a 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.” From the street directories of Northampton, it appears that this house was first owned by a mason,
Guido Zanone and his wife Arcangela. The Zanones were still in the house in 1935 and it is likely that Guido had a role in its masonry construction. 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.