Ladd Avenue 31.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-82 Easthampton NTH.440 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 31 Ladd Avenue Historic Name:
James Mantor House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1860-1867 Source: Map & Registry of Deeds Style/Form: gable and wing
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced,
ca. 2000; porch railings altered, and side porch glass-enclosed, ca. 1920. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.686 acres Setting: This house faces north in a mixed
neighborhood of factory buildings and residences dating from the end of the 19th century.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [31 LADD AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.440 _X__ 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 one-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof with a one-and-a-half story wing
on its west elevation. It is one of the most common house forms in Northampton constructed for workers’ housing during the second half of the 19th century, being compact and adaptable
to families of varying sizes. It is three bays wide with a side hall entry behind a full-width porch, and and the wing has a glass-enclosed porch across its north façade as well. At
the time of its construction the building was probably more evidently Italianate in style. Remaining today of that style are the relatively wide eaves that are thinly boxed and make
returns in the gable ends and the full-length windows on the first story of the north façade. The windows have lintels with crown moldings, which are repeated above the main entry and
the house has a relatively wide frieze beneath the cornice and moderate cornerboards. The porch was altered in the 20th century. It rests on heavy posts above solid railings that are
battered in Craftsman style, being wider at the base than at their top. 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 one and a half story house was built during the 1860’s for
the Bay State Hardware Company, which was located just north of here at the curve in Riverside Drive. The Hardware Co. owned most of the land in Bay State north and east of Riverside
Drive and filed a subdivision plan in 1867 for the development of residential lots. Many of the houses were first owned by the company (or their successors, Northampton Cutlery Company),
and sold to individual owners later on. This house and lot was purchased by James Mantor, a mechanic, in 1867, for $2000.” 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [31 LADD AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.440 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Mantor House would contribute to a potential Bay State Village Historic District as a representative of the village’s
workers’ housing from the 19th century when the village was a cutlery manufacturing center. In this and several neighboring houses, residents worked as polishers, shippers, mechanics
and other trades in the factories making up Northampton’s working class residents. Architecturally the buildings in this potential historic district are late 19th century in style and
modest in scale. They were mostly privately owned and have been well-maintained. The district has integrity of design, association, workmanship, materials, setting and feeling.