Lake Street 98.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 17A-248 Easthampton NTH.79 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 98 Lake Street Historic Name:
Richard Hulme House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1873-1884 Source: maps of 1873 and 1884 Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage:
0.38 acres Setting: This house faces east on a tree-shaded lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [98 LAKE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.79 ___ 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 Hulme House is a popular house form, which has been embellished, from the last quarter of the
19th century in Northampton. It is a two-story house under a front-gable roof with a two-story, two-bay long wing on its south elevation. As a basic gable-and-wing form, the house appeared
in Northampton in one-and-a-half and two-and-a-half story versions as workers’ housing and as speculatively-built housing for the city’s growing middle class. This house appears to fall
in the second category with its full-width porch on the main block supported on chamfered posts with scroll-cut brackets at the eaves and a second story oriel window centered above its
roof. The oriel is angled and its three-sided slate roof sits within the angle of the front-gable roof, an infrequent architectural feature. There is a small secondary porch in the angle
between the main block and the wing. It rests on a single chamfered post with a bracket at the eaves repeating the main porch’s decorative features. The plan of the house is further
enhanced by a three-sided, one-story bay window on the south elevation of the wing. The pitch of the roof is fairly low and its eaves are wide and thinly boxed, and do not make returns,
features that indicate some economies were made in the house’s design and construction. 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: “A subdivision plan was filed for Lake Street
was filed by Charles Warren, a Florence butcher and real estate developer, in 1868. This was the year after the railroad through Florence, connecting Williamsburg and Northampton was
opened. The railroad ran parallel to and just north of Main and North Main Streets in Florence and spurred industrial and residential development here. Until this time, the village of
Florence had been developed between Main Street and the Mill River. Development was slow on Lake Street, with six houses constructed by 1884, and only a few more before the turn of the
century. This house first appears on the 1884 atlas and was owned by Richard Hulme, an engineer at the B.M. Couch foundry on North Maple Street in Florence.” 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.