Massasoit Street 11.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 31A-005-001 Easthampton NTH.450 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 11 Massasoit Street Historic Name:
Catherine Brown House Uses: Present: Two-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1888-1891 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good-fair Moved: no | x
| yes | | Date Acreage: 0.138 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house on a built-up residential residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [11 Massasoit Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.450 __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 the least altered of four identical Queen Anne style houses on Massasoit Street. It is
two-and-a-half stories in height with a front-gable roof and cross-gable wings on both north and south as well as a two-and-a-half story ell on the east. The slate-covered roof is steeply
pitched and on it is a shaped chimney. In the angle between the main block of the house and the south wing is an angled porch on turned posts. It has a spindle frieze and a turned baluster
railing and it is through the porch that one enters the house. To add interior volume to the main block of the house there is a one-story bay window on the west façade. The bay window
has a hipped roof supported on brackets and a pediment centered on its roof. It has a large fixed-light window on the west side with multi-light Queen Anne style transoms. Sash elsewhere
is 1/1 excepting the first floor window of the north wing, which is a large, fixed-light window that is found on its identical neighboring house at #9 Massasoit, suggesting that it is
original. The first story of the house is clapboard sided and the second story is wood shingle sided. There is a jetty between stories and beneath the jetty is a band of incised floral
ornament in the Eastlake style. This very distinctive band identifies the other identical buildings as well. Windows on the second story have shallow, shingled hoods above lintels with
Eastlake pendant ornaments. 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 the Form B of 1980, “In 1888 Oren Smith bought the rear part of the Wood homestead on Elm Street. This homestead was bounded westerly
by Massasoit Street, which had been opened in 1869, and northerly by Arlington Street. By 1895 six houses had been built, all two stories in height and L-shaped. Variety is provided
through different projections and trim detailing. In 1891 Mr. Smith sold this house and lot to Catherine Brown.” 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [11 Massasoit Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.450 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 Brown 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 Brown House is a good example of the Queen Anne style and
would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.