High Street 110.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 17C-149 Easthampton NTH.99 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 110 High Street Historic Name:
General John Otis rental house Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1873-1874 Source: Atlases Style/Form: gable-and-wing form
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): House sided, porch
enclosed, and windows replaced, ca. 1990; chimney removed and dormer added to roof, 2010. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.129 acres Setting: This house occupies
a corner lot that slopes down to the south.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [110 HIGH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.99 ___ 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 standard workers’ house, one of two originally identical houses on High Street. The other
is next door. It is gable-and-wing in form with a front-gabled section one-and-a-half stories in height and a wing of the same height. The gable-and-wing-form became common during the
last quarter of the 19th century for farmhouses, and town houses as well, as it provided plentiful light to the interior rooms and was relatively simple to construct. A porch that formerly
extended across the wing has been enclosed. Where formerly it would have had more decorative detail it is now utilitarian under its vinyl siding. 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: “This small cottage was one of two owned by General John L. Otis on the south side of High Street at the corner of Fruit Street (now Keyes Street). General Otis was secretary and
treasurer of the Northampton Emory Wheel Company, and also president of the Mill River Button Company. The cottages were built between 1873 and 1874.” 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 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.