Hawley Street 78.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 32C-228-001 Easthampton NTH.2528 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 78 Hawley Street Historic Name:
W. F. Parker House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: pre-1873 Source: map of 1873 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.154 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot in a mixed commercial/residential neig
hborhood. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [78 Hawley Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2528 ___ 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 Italianate style house with a front-gable roof. Three bays
wide and four bays long the main block of the house has an angled bay window on the south elevation, a full-width porch across the west façade and a cross-gable bay on the north. There
is a two-and-a-half and a one-story ell on the east elevation and a side porch on the south extending beneath a shed roof from the larger of the two ells. The clapboard-sided house has
a pointed window in its west façade gable field, a window form that was repeated well into the 1890s in Northampton houses. Window sash is replacement 4/4. 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 1970: “Hawley Street was one of the first streets in Northampton and homesteads were established here during the 17th century. A brook ran along the western side of the street,
limiting residential development to the eastern side. Many of these homesteads remained in the same family for generations, and it wasn’t until the early 19th century that there was
much subdivision of the original lots.” In 1873 the house was owned by W. F. Parker and was set closely to a house on the north occupied by J. C. Arms. In 1884 the two houses were still
closely set and this house appears to have been that of H. C. Hallett. Henry C. Hallett was a superintendent in a silk mill and later the B and B Company, and he and his wife Francis
lived here with their two sons, Henry and Charles. Henry, Sr. in 1895 ran a bicycle shop from the property, one of seven dealers in Northampton. In 1908 the Halletts were still in the
house and continued selling bicycles. In 1926 the house was vacant. 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. Northampton Street Directories, 1915-1926. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts,
New York, 1860.