Hinckley Street 12.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 30B-23 Easthampton NTH.432 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 12 Hinckley Street Historic
Name: John P. Seidell House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1886 Source: Atlas & Directory Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): vinyl siding added,
and windows replaced, ca. 1990; porch added, ca. 1970. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.574 acres Setting: This house is set on a rise in the landscape and faces
east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [12 HINCKLEY STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.432 ___ 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. The Seidell House is typical of many of the workers’ houses that were built in the last quarter
of the 19th century in Northampton in that it is one-and-a-half stories in height and L-shaped in plan with a porch in the angle between the two house sections. It is modest in size
yet it has stylistic ornament that helps define it as a Queen Anne style house. For instance, there is a a jerkin head roof in the south wing, and angled, one-story bay window on the
gable section and a shed roof porch on turned Queen Anne posts sheltering the main entry. The porch railing is ornamentally cut in a jigsaw-cut pattern that was popular in the 1880s
and 90s. Typical of the 1880s, windows are paired in the second story and there is a small front-gabled dormer on the east façade. 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: “Mr. John
P. Seidell was employed as a foreman for the Northampton Cutlery 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.