Lilly Street 51.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 17C-269 Easthampton NTH.131 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 51 Lilly Street Historic
Name: Stephen Fuller House Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1870-1873 Source: atlas of 1873, registry of deeds Style/Form: Gothic
Revival/Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick, concrete Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
East wing added after 1980, and windows replaced. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.224 acres Setting: This house is on a tree-shaded lot on a quiet side street
in Florence.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [51 Lilly Street ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.131 _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 one-and-a-half story, vinyl-sided house with a steeply pitched, side-gable roof has a centered
cross-gable following a form that was very popular in the Italianate and Gothic Revival styles. In this case, the cross-gable has scrolled bargeboards, giving it a Gothic Revival denomination
and in the gable of the east end is a scrolled truss of Gothic inspiration. The house is three bays wide and has a center entry sheltered by a portico on chamfered posts with respondent
pilasters flanking the door. On the hipped roof portico is a low balustrade. The center bay of the second story has a round-arched window, an Italianate style feature. Twin chimneys
are centered on the roof ridge about four feet apart. The vinyl siding has altered the appearance of the window lintels and the door surround. 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 cottage was constructed in the early 1880s for Stephen Fuller, a Florence insurance agent. However, Mr. Smith lived on Maple Street. The house was occupied during the late
19th century by Henry Fuller, a civil engineer.” 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. 603-P….illegible.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [51 Lilly Street ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.131 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 Florence Center Historic District. The potential historic district of Florence Center
is significant as the commercial, residential, institutional center of the village that developed from 1657 when it was set off as Northampton’s “Inner Commons” as agricultural land
and 1681 when the first sawmill was erected at a falls on the Mill River. The agricultural and industrial village developed through the 18th and 19th centuries around industry on the
Mill River, agriculture on the alluvial flood plain and the Strong Tavern and later Cottage Hotel at the intersection of Main and Maple Streets. It is significant for the silk industry
that flourished through the Civil war as an alternative to slave-picked cotton and for the establishment of the Northampton Association for Education and Industry, a utopian community
that existed 1843-1847. Association members after its close continued in Florence their principles of equality by running the Underground Railroad through the village and harboring fugitive
slaves. It is significant as the home of Sojourner Truth. 19th century industry in the Center included the Florence Sewing Machine Company, which built its own housing. Architecturally
the Center is significant for the range of Gothic Revival, Italianate, Stick Style, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style homes, for its commercial blocks and library
in the the Revival styles of the late 19th century. Gothic Revival and Italianate style churches are architect-designed in high style versions. The potential district has integrity of
workmanship, design, feeling, association, and materials.