Hawley Street 122.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-340 Easthampton NTH.2170 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 122 Hawley Street Historic
Name: Levi Strong House Uses: Present: Three family residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: 1824 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Federal Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Brick Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Side wing Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes |
| Date Acreage: 0.14 acres Setting: House faces west onto Hawley Street on a corner lot. Up and down the western side Hawley Street, parallel to the railroad tracks, are commercial,
office, and industrial businesses. The eastern side of Hawley Street is predominantly comprised of residential uses. House sits on the far western edge of a late 19th century residential
subdivision. Minimal shrubbery exists on this lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [122 HAWLEY STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2170 ___ 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-story Federal style house comprised of brick with low-pitched hip roof with classical
molded cornice with dentil row. The house rests on a brick foundation and has a wide brick watertable. The principal block of the house is five bays wide and two bays deep. At the center
of the five bay front façade is an entrance portico with unelaborated entablature and very slim slim posts. The original porch floor is gone and the entrance now has a cement stoop.
The slightly recessed front entry has been stripped of most of its original features with the exception of a long stone lintel above the door. Windows on the house also have stone lintels
and sills. Windows on the front façade are replacement six over six sash. The windows on the northern and southern elevations of the home have been covered over by brick. There is one
interior brick chimney on the northern elevation of the house, which was likely matched by a interior brick chimney on the southern elevation at one time. There is a one-and-one-half
story rear ell extending from the northeastern side of the home covered in vinyl siding. On the northern elevation of the rear ell is a shed roof dormer. Also on the northern elevation
of the rear ell is a one-story side wing that is also covered in vinyl siding. This wing has a shed roof porch, with a couple of turned posts, which faces Hawley Street. On the southern
elevation of the rear ell there is a side porch with shed roof. Form B of 1974 & 1980 surmised that “Several additions have been made to the rear, probably at the time of Belding Brothers
and Company ownership, when the building was probably used as housing for their silk mill workers.” 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 1974 & 1980: “This late Federal style house
was built for Levi Strong, a cooper and farmer. Mr. Strong was of the fourth generation of Strong’s to occupy the family homestead on Hawley Street. This land had been held in the family
since the late 17th century.” 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. 371-P. 467, 240-341, 199-215,
49-679, and 49-638