Liberty Street 36.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 30A-55 Easthampton NTH.427 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 36 Liberty Street Historic
Name: Martin Brown House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca.1870 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Dormer added,
bay added and fenestration changed, ca. 1920-2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.28 acres Setting: This house faces east and is set on a high lot on a sloping
street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [36 LIBERTY STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.427 _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 house appears to have begun life as a modest Italianate style house one-and-a-half stories
in height under a front-gable roof, ca. 1870. It has, and had, full boxed eaves that made returns above corner pilasters. Three bays wide with a side-hall entry and two 6/6 sash windows,
the house is clapboard-sided and has a center stove chimney. Within two decades it received the porch in full-blown Queen Anne style. The porch has a projecting pediment on triple turned
posts above its stairs and extends across the east façade with turned baluster railings, Eastlake-style brackets at the eaves and a spindled frieze that is further embellished by a row
of prominent and over-scaled dentils at the cornice level. The house was later expanded slightly with the addition of a through-cornice shed roofed dormer on the south elevation and
a one-story, shed roofed bay on the south as well. 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 is one of the small one and a half story cottages which were built for employees
by the Bay State Hardware Co. The 1873 Atlas shows the house with the name of Brown next to it, and lists it as lot #12. In 1883, lot #12 was sold to Martin P. Brown. He sold it the
next year to Thomas Cantwell, a mechanic at the Northampton Cutlery Co. (the successor to the Bay State Hardware Company) and Cantwell lived here for the rest of the 19th century.” 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 383-P. 519, 371-442, 264-183
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [36 LIBERTY STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.427 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. This property would contribute to a Bay State Village Historic District as the home of families who worked in the local
cutlery factories that dominated the industry of the village from the middle of the 19th century into the 20th century. Architecturally the house is a fine example of the Queen Anne
style.