Massasoit Street 13.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-82 Easthampton NTH.293 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 13 Massasoit Street Historic Name:
Oren Smith House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1888-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: parged brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate and asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added, windows replaced,
ca. 1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.138 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house on a residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [13MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.293 _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. The Oren Smith House is a relatively late Queen Anne style house and has a less complicated plan
and elevation than many of its contemporaries in Northampton. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof. There is a cross-gable bay on the south elevation, and in the
angle between the front-gable and the cross-gable is a three-story, square tower with a pyramidal roof. A two-story ell on the east has an enclosed side-porch on the north. This plan
is not uncommon in Northampton. There are three-sided bay windows on the north elevation and the west façade to add picturesque volume to the house. Bay windows and several of the windows
in the main block of the house are paired. All windows have 1/1 replacement sash. At the entry in the tower is a flat-roofed portico on a post. The use of vinyl siding and vinyl replacement
windows obscures some of the original detail of the house. 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: “In 1888, Oren Smith brought 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 on Smith’s lot. Smith kept
the title to this house and lot until 1897, when he sold the property to Louis Campbell, the postmaster, who made his residence here.” 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. 494-P. 211, 418-321
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [13MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.293 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 Smith 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 Smith House despite its vinyl siding and windows retains
many of its Queen Anne stylistic features and would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.