Hinckley Street 146.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-152 Easthampton NTH.259 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 146 Hinckley Street Historic
Name: John Cahill House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c.1865 Source: Registry of Deeds and Directory Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.506 acres Setting: This house is set back from the road and on a hillside buffered from street view by a row of trees and shrubbery at the
street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [146 HINCKLEY STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.259 ___ 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 house like its neighbors at 12 and 142 Hinckley Street are typical of the type of individual
workers’ housing that was constructed in the second half of the 19th century in Northampton. It is one-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof, is three bays wide and the
equivalent of four bays deep for a rectangular plan. The house has a full-width porch across its east façade supported on chamfered posts with brackets at the eaves. Windows of the east
façade at the first story level are full-length, an architectural feature that flourished during the Italianate style period of the 1850s-1870s. Elsewhere in the house windows have 6/6
sash. There is a two-story garage southwest 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: “in 1865, John Cahill bought 1 and 1/3 acres of land fronting on the ‘highway
from Florence to Northampton’ (Nonotuck Street) from Samuel L. Hinckley for $198. The land rose steeply to the southwest up the slopes of Baker’s Hill. Shortly thereafter, this small
cottage was built. It was set back about 250 feet from Nonotuck Street, and 100 feet from Hinckley Street. It faced Hinckley and was sited about 30 feet higher than the 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. 353-P.83, 227-257