Hinckley Street 106.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 23D-141 Easthampton NTH.258 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 106 Hinckley Street Historic
Name: Richard O’Brien House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1890 Source: Atlases and Directories Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Vinyl
siding added ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.269 acres Setting: This house sits on a rise in the landscape and faces east on a street of largely late
19th century houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [106 HINCKLEY STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.258 ___ 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 modest Queen Anne style house that was built for space more than for an elegant exterior,
although it does have Queen Anne stylistic features. It is two-and-a-half stories in height with a front-gable roof and a two-and-a-half story wing on the south. The main block of the
house is three bays wide and the wing is two bays wide and each of the house segments has a porch porch on turned posts with brackets at its eaves. The brackets are not identical, however.
In the gable fields are shingles laid in patterns. Porch railings with square balusters are later additions. Vinyl siding and replacement windows obscure details that would help identify
the age and style of the house. 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 clapboard house was built on land of Richard O’Brien. Mr. O’Brien, a mason, bought a little
more than an acre of land on the eastern slope of Baker’s Hill, fronting on Hinckley Street, for $290.75 in 1869. The sale was made subject to a right of way 33 feet wide ‘in continuation
of road already located south of premises.’ This was Maple Street (now Maplewood Terrace). Mr. O’Brien’s house was located west of the proposed street. Shortly before 1895, this house
was built east of Maple Street, fronting on Hinckley Street.” 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.
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