King Street 71.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 32A-121 Easthampton NTH.854 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 71 King Street Historic Name: Catholic
Society Parsonage Uses: Present: office building, residence Original: parsonage Date of Construction: 1866 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, Oct. 30, 1866 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
William Fenno Pratt, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Ell additions on rear, ca. 1980. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.899 acres Setting: This building faces west on one of Northampton’s major commercial thoroughfares.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [71 KING STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.854 ___ 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 Catholic Society parsonage follows the Italianate style and form designed by architect William
Fenno Pratt elsewhere in Northampton for residences. Examples are the Lathrop House at 81 Bridge Street, the Lyman House at 333 Elm Street, and the First Parish parsonage at 74 Bridge
Street, all three of which share the Catholic Society’s two-and-a-half story height under a side-gabled roof with a centered cross-gable. There are two interior chimneys on the roof
and the building has two ell extensions on the east elevation that were later additions as well as a one-story enclosed side porch on the south. The main block of the parsonage is five
bays wide and it is the equivalent of four bays deep. An entry porch with a flat Italianate roof has brackets at the eaves and was glass-enclosed in Colonial Revival style with fanlights
over side windows and double-leaf entry doors. Windows have 6/6 sash and they have drip molding lintels. Pointed arch windows appear in the center cross-gable and the end gables of the
house. They are not typical of the Italianate style in general, but were used by Pratt at some of his other buildings too. 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 1975: “Willliam F. Pratt,
local architect, drew the plans for this dwelling, the Catholic Society Parsonage, in 1866. The Catholics in Northampton first worshipped on King Street. A church was built there about
1845 and the parsonage in 1866. By the 1870’s, the Catholic population was large enough for a separate parish to be organized for Florence, Haydenville, and Leeds. In 1880, the Florence
church was completed and in 1881, a new church was begun in Northampton on the hill where the Mansion House had stood overlooking the old New Haven-Northampton Canal. About 1887, a parsonage
was added below the new Gothic church; by this time the Catholic worshippers had begun to organize according to their national backgrounds and the French and Polish Catholics had located
in separate places of worship.” 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.