Holyoke Street 47.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32C-210 Easthampton NTH.2153 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 47 Holyoke Street Historic
Name: I.H. Stevens House Uses: Present: Two family residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: 1855-1860 Source: 1860 Map Style/Form: Greek Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Asphalt shingle Roof: Asphalt shingle Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Asphalt shingle siding, circa
1970 Condition: Good Moved: no | x| yes | | Date Acreage: 0.73 acres Setting: House sits close to the street in a residential neighborhood of former single family homes that have been
converted into multiple residential units.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [47 HOLYOKE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2153 ___ 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 story Greek Revival home with pedimented gable, broad corner pilasters, and a wide
frieze. These features evoke a temple-like structure. The home faces north onto Holyoke Street and is three bays wide and three bays deep with a side hall entry plan. The front entry
door is new but the entry way has retained its original multicolored transom and sidelights. The long side porch on the east elevation of the home and entrance portico are later Victorian
additions. The entrance portico has a shed roof and is supported by turned posted with decorative brackets. The foundation of the home is brick and the house is clad in asphalt shingle.
The original windows have been replaced with six over one sash vinyl windows. There is a three-sided bay on the western elevation of the home. A porch was added directly above in the
20th century to provide a secondary access for the secondary dwelling unit in the home. Extending off the southern elevation is a two-story ell followed by a one-story ell. 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 Greek Revival Residence was built in the late 1850s for Ira H. Stevens. Holyoke Street had been opened in the early 1850s and featured several
Greek Revival homes in the vernacular manner.” Although this house is connected to additional buildings to the rear, the back half of the lot was subdivided at some point in the last
fifty years, resulting in a separate single family living unit. Gary and Sandra Milo owned the house in 1980 when the house was first included on the city’s inventory, and the family
continues to own the house to the present. 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: Book 499-Page 167, 269-239, 158-472,
148-261