Leonard Street 38.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 11A-10 Easthampton NTH.30 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 38 Leonard Street Historic Name: David
Schillare House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1873-1874 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate, asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Side porch enclosed partially, ca. 1900; rear
porch added, ca. 1950. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.666 acres Setting: This is an east-facing house set on a tree-shaded, raised lot at a curve in the road.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [38 LEONARD STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.30 ___ 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 Queen Anne style house that is the best-preserved 19th century houses in its neighborhood.
Set on a knoll, the clapboard-sided house is one-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof. It has a two-story ell on the west whose roof ridge rises above that of the main
block of the house. Following the ell on the west is a one-story screened porch. The main block of of the house is three bays wide and the equivalent of three bays deep. It has a sidehall
entry and a full-width porch on the east. The porch has a hipped roof that rests on posts with fine, scroll-cut brackets at its eaves. Windows on the east façade at the first story are
¾ length and in the gable is a pointed window, a common feature in Queen Anne style houses in Northampton. A one-story angled bay is located on the south elevation of the main block.
There is a side porch on the south elevation of the ell. It has been partially enclosed but a post remains with a bracket at the eaves identical to those of the east porch. On the south
façade are two small, through-frieze, knee-high windows at the second story level. This house represents well, the level of construction achieved for the newly-forming middle class of
Northampton at the end of the 19th century. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building,
and the the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. From Form B of 1980: “This is another of the modest Victorian houses built in the subdivision atop the hill overlooking
Leeds village. The Nonotuck Silk Company began selling residential lots in the 1870’s. By 1884, approximately 25 houses had been built on the four streets that comprised the subdivision.
David Schillare, an employee of the Nonotuck Silk Company, is listed here on the 1884 Atlas.” 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.