Massasoit Street 48.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-73 Easthampton NTH.287 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 48 Massasoit Street Historic Name:
Enos Wellington House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1869-1871 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: eclectic Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate, asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Attached garage Major Alterations (with dates): Fenestration altered,
garage attached, 1970-1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.37 acres acres Setting: This is an east-facing house on a turn-of-the century, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [48MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.287 _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 Enos Wellington House is largely Gothic Revival in style but has lost some of its trim and
been altered to display more than one style. The house is one-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof with two cross-gable wings on north and south for a T-shaped plan.
Its roofs are steeply-pitched in Gothic fashion, have wide overhangs and are thinly boxed. Through-eaves dormers on both cross-gable wings have Gothic earred lintels. There is a full-width
porch on the east façade that extends to the south and north elevations but has been enclosed on those elevations to provide more interior space. The porch is supported on posts with
Eastlake brackets at the eaves. The main block of the house is two bays wide. A sidehall entry is adjacent to a three-sided bay window. Window sash is mainly 2/2 but some 1/1 replacement
sash is in place as well. An added “picture” window is located in the south wing that also attaches to an added garage. 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 opened in 1869 with a subdivision plan of Henry Maynard. In 1871, Enos Wellington, a paper maker, paid $1700 for this house and land, lot no. 9 on Maynard’s plan. By 1873, about
a dozen houses had been built on this street, and most of the other houses were built by the end of the century.” 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. 4130P. 86 and 123, 264-170
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [48MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.287 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 Wellington 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 Wellington House is a stylistically eclectic house and
would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.