Massasoit Street 24.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-76 Easthampton NTH.289 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 24 Massasoit Street Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Attached garage Major Alterations (with dates): Rear wing and garage added, ca. 1980.
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.448 acres Setting: This is an east-facing house on a residential street lined mainly with late 19th-early 20th century houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [24MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.289 _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 two-and-a-half story Queen Anne style house with a hipped roof from which projects on
the east façade a three-sided bay, and from the south elevation a three-sided bay and a cross-gable bay. It is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep for a complex plan.
The first story of the house is clapboard-sided and the second story is shingle-sided. A wide frieze surrounds the house beneath the wide eaves overhang. The south cross-gable bay has
a projecting pediment on brackets. A wraparound porch extends from the east façade around to the south elevation. It is a hipped roof porch with a pediment marking the entry stairs.
It rests on columns that are connected by square baluster railings. In its lack of turned features and scroll cut brackets, this house is transitional to the Colonial Revival style that
also was current during the decades of the turn-of-the century. An exterior wall chimney that cuts through the eaves suggests this house is closer to 1915 when the Craftsman style was
current than to 1895. An added one-story wing on the south connects to a two-bay garage, both later additions. 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, but most of the development took place between the mid 1880’s and mid 1890’s. By 1895, most of the present residences had been constructed, and any further building took place
by filling in the gaps.” 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] [24MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.289 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. This 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 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. This house is a good example of the late Queen Anne style and
would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.