Market Street 80.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, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-114 Easthampton NTH.2053 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 80 Market Street Historic Name: Orange
Wright House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1850s Source: Map and visual evidence Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asphalt shingles Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Enclosed side porch, front porch
posts altered, n.d. Condition: fair-poor Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.104 acres Setting: This house faces east in a residential section of Market Street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [80MARKET STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2053 ___ 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 Wright House is a two-story Italianate style house under a flat roof with wide eaves. It is
among the several Italianate style houses on Market Street and was intended to resemble an Italian villa. The house is only two bays wide two bays deep for a square plan to which were
added a two-story ell on the west and an enclosed side porch on the south. Windows in the house have architrave surrounds with artificially-sided cornices and their sash is a combination
of 1/1 and 2/2. A hipped roof porch crosses the east façade. It is supported on fluted posts with respondent fluted pilasters at the façade wall. The railing connecting the posts has
square balusters. 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 appears to have been built shortly after 1850 by Orange Wright, a carpenter. Mr. Wright is listed on Market Street
in the first Northampton directory, published in 1860, and he maintains his residence here at least until 1875. The 1831, 1854, and 1860 maps all seem to show a house located near this
site, but it’s doubtful the house predates the early 1850’’s and was probably built for Orange Wright. Mr. Wright’s family had owned the homestead at no. 65 Market Street for many generations.”
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.