High Street 95-97.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-133 Easthampton NTH.91 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 95-97 High Street Historic
Name: Ira Todd House Uses: Present: Five-family residence Original: Two-family residence Date of Construction: 1860-1873 Source: Map & Atlas Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asphalt shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): west wing roof extended, exterior
wall chimney added, siding added, some windows replaced, ca. 1970. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.767 acres Setting: This house faces south on a large, raised
lot shaded by mature maple and evergreen trees.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [95-97 HIGH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.91 ___ 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, two-family house under a side-gable roof with a center chimney.
It is one of the most stylistically elaborate of the two-family houses in Florence. The house is Italianate in style with its wide roof eaves supported on paired brackets, a pair of
arched Italianate windows centered on the second story of its south façade and a pair of angled bay windows on the first story. The bay windows flank a pair of center entries that are
sheltered by a hipped roof portico on posts with brackets at the eaves. Two-story wings are attached to the east and west elevations and both wings have bracketed porches on posts that
cross the wings and extend on to the main block of the house. The house has been sided with asphalt shingles that obscure its original surface. 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 large double house is one of the early houses to be built on High Street in Florence. The street was laid out about the same time as the railroad line connecting Williamsburg
and Northampton. The Williamsburg division was opened in 1867 and had a depot in Florence on North Maple Street. This opening spurred industrial and residential development north of
Main Street in the village. The 1873 atlas showed the house and listed the owner as Ira Todd, a mechanic at the Florence Sewing Machine Company.” 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.