Island Road 174.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 46-38 Easthampton NTH.1104 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Ox Bow Address: 174 Island Road Historic Name:
Henry Mooney House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage, studio Major Alterations (with dates): Some windows
replaced, ca. 2000 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1 acre Setting: This is a a north-facing house on a deep, picket-fenced-in lot with views of Mt. Tom to the south.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [174 ISLAND ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1104 ___ 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 the best-preserved and maintained house in the Ox Bow and has, in fact, been restored since
the 1980 inventory when it had been altered and some of its historic details lost. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gabled roof with a centered chimney. Offset on
the south elevation is a two-and-a-half story ell four bays long and preceded on the east by a shed roof porch on posts. The main block of the house has a wraparound porch across the
north façade and on to the east elevation. It is supported on fluted posts and has a railing with square balusters. The porch abuts an angled, single-story bay window on the east elevation
and there is a cross-gable bay on the west elevation. The house is clapboard sided on the first and second stories and wood shingle sided in the gable ends and on the bay window. There
is an arched window in the north gable field. Other windows in the house have been replaced with 1/1 sash. 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: “Around the turn of the century, the
Ox Bow section of Northampton was developed to its present state. Island Road was extended westerly and a short, dead end street, Ferry Avenue, was appended on the southern side. This
residential development was a consequence of the expansion of the wood processing industries located at the Ox Bow. These were the Connecticut Valley Lumber Co. and the Mt. Tom Sulphite
Pulp Co. This house first appears on the 1895 atlas and was owned and occupied by Henry Mooney, a wood dealer.” 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.