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Linden Street 20.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 25C-205 Easthampton NTH.407 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 20 Linden Street Historic Name: Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Studio in construction Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.116 acres Setting: This house faces south on a side street near the Bridge Street Cemetery. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [20 LINDEN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.407 ___ 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 well-developed Queen Anne style design and was a prominent house on Linden Street at the time of its construction. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof whose gable field on the south façade has been divided by two jetties on brackets. This is a stylistic feature of the “Free Classic” version of the Queen Anne style, preferring classical elements elements over the spindlework, asymmetry and ornamentation of the basic Queen Anne. It was popular after 1890, which accords with the construction date of this house. The large house is only two bays wide, its scale being grand however, and the side entry is preceded by a large pedimented portico on classical columns rather than the usual Queen Anne turned post supports. The second bay is composed of a large, fixed light window, which was often found in Northampton during the last few decades of the 19th century. At the second story of the south facade the two bays are composed of a single 6/1 sash window and an oriel window that projects from the plane of the façade. A highly unusual feature is the shed-roof, through-cornice oriel window on the west elevation that rises two stories. It contains a stained glass stair window at the second floor level. There is a two-and-a-half story ell on the north elevation of the house and it has a secondary entry under a shed-roofed portico on the west elevation. 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: “Linden Street was opened in 1893 through the North Street homestead of Mrs. William Allen. This was the last of the six streets opened through the colonial homesteads on Market and North Streets. By 1895, most of the southern side of the street had been developed with single family residences, but the northern side wasn’t developed until early in the 20th century. By 1915, though, all of the present structures had been erected.” 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.