Massasoit Street 10.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 24C-79 Easthampton NTH.292 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 10 Massasoit Street Historic Name:
Henry Mills House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1887 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.378 acres Setting: This house faces east on a quiet residential s
treet.INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [10MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.292 _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 is a gable-and-wing form house that is two-stories in height. The gable section of the Queen
Anne style house is one bay wide with pairs of 6/1 sash windows at both stories. The wing section of the house is the equivalent of two bays wide and two bays deep. It has a jerkin head
roof on its south elevation. In the angle between the two sections of the house is a hipped roof porch that rests on Doric columns. A one-story screened porch is located at the southwest
corner of the house. The clapboard-sided house has a beltcourse separating first and second stories, which adds to its picturesque qualities. The front-gable section also has a gable
field of scalloped shingles. There is a Queen Anne style stair window with multiple panes on the south 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: “Massasoit Street was
laid out in 1869 through a subdivision plan of Henry Maynard. Development was slow with only a dozen houses erected by 1884. However, the next decade saw a good deal more building, and
by 1895, most of the present residences were built. In 1887, Henry Mills, a cutler, purchased lot no. 3 with his house upon it.” 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. 411-P. 351, 374-83, 264-170
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [10MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.292 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. The Mills House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor,
Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few
gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years
to the present. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival
and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Mills House is a good example of the Queen Anne style in
a modest version, and would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.