Massasoit Street 23.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-87 Easthampton NTH.295 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 23 Massasoit Street Historic Name:
Mary and Joseph Daniels House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1888-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Queen
Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.138 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house on a quiet, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [23MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.295 _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 best-preserved of three originally identical Queen Anne style houses on Massasoit Street.
It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof. It has cross-gable bays on north and south and a two-and-a-half story rear ell for a Greek Cross plan. The house is clapboard
sided on the first story, shingled on the second story and there are decorative sawtooth shingles in the gable ends. The gables of the house have embellished King Post trusses in their
gable ends. Between first and second floors is a beltcourse with a row of star-like ornament in relief. The façade of the main block of the house is one bay wide. At the first story
is a deep oriel window that has a small pediment on its hipped roof, brackets at its eaves, a paneled base and windows with stained glass transoms. The second story has a paired window
of 6/1 sash. It has a very shallow, shed roof lintel that is shingle-sided suggesting the designer of the house was aware of the Shingle Style and a similar use of shingles to wrap around
architectural features. The north elevation of the house is the most articulated of the elevations. It has two porches in the angles made by the cross-gable bay and the main block of
the house. The main entry porch has a shed roof, rests on a single turned post with respondent posts on the house walls. It is ornamented with a spindle frieze, brackets at the eaves
and a railing with geometric fretwork. The second porch is larger, projects beyond the plane of the cross-gabled bay and its turned supports are connected by a solid shingle railing.
It is a screened porch. This house represents well the aim of the Queen Anne style to provide visually active exteriors and complex interior volumes to create a picturesque whole. 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 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 on Smith’s land. Mr. Smith kept title to this house and lot until 1901 when he sold the property
to Mary Daniels, wife of Joseph, an insurance agent.” 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. 546-P.
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INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [23MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.295 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 Daniels 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 Daniels House is a fine 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.