Haydenville Road 670.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 The lot does not appear on the city map 06. Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer
Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 06-01-001 Easthampton NTH.5 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 670 Haydenville Road (formerly 666) Historic Name: Widow Johnson Residence Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1840
Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Greek Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: clapboards and vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary
Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: fair/good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.696 Setting: This house is set back slightly from the road on a raised lot behind
two low embankments.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [670 HAYDENVILLE ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.5 ___ 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 Greek Revival style house that has had numerous alterations although its form and several
architectural features remain to identify its style. It is a two-and-a-half story, vinyl-sided house with a front-gable roof that makes returns to form a projecting pediment that is
supported on four fluted Doric columns. The columns support a full entablature consisting of architrave, frieze and cornice that surrounds the house at the roofline. Corner pilasters
frame the main block of the building as well. The house’s east façade is three bays wide and has a sidehall entry. Windows of both the first and second stories have been made smaller
and aluminum 1/1 sash has been inserted, giving the fenestration a non-traditional appearance. Additionally, a round arch window has been inserted in the pediment. The house has two
wings attached, one on the south of two stories followed by a one story addition, and one on the north that is one-and-a-half stories in height. This form of a main block with wings
was the form that the first Greek Revival house in Northampton was given (no longer extant) and one that was picked up and repeated by two adjacent Greek Revival houses in Haydenville
north of this house. Here, however, the form itself has been altered as the south wing has been raised a story, its fenestration altered and the one-story addition made. 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 1976: “This Greek Revival residence located on the Northampton-Williamsburg line is the principal structure on a large parcel of farmland. The property was in the Towers
family through most of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It appears that the residence was built for a Johnson, for a sale of the surrounding property in 1848 mentions
that the Widow Sylvia Johnson is residing in the house.” 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: 1545.198,
1233.318, 1186.65, 1096.23-30, 964.366, 357.133, 125.197