Meadow Street 21.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 17C-279 Easthampton NTH.135 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 21 Meadow Street Historic
Name: Gary H. Emerson House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1884 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: French
Second Empire Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: wood shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows
replaced with vinyl, ca. 2005 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.149 acres Setting: This south-facing house occupies a corner lot and has a wrought iron fence with
gate opening from Meadow Street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [21MEADOW STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.135 ___ 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 Emerson House is a French Second Empire house one-and-a-half stories in height. There are fewer
than ten of these mansard-roofed houses remaining in Florence and this is a well-maintained example. The south-facing house is L-shaped in plan with a short wing on the east. It is three
bays wide and has a very steeply-pitched lower mansard slope that is now covered with shingles rather than with slate. In this lower slope are large rectangular dormer windows that have
paired 2/2 sash. There is an angled bay window on the west elevation of the clapboard-sided house, as elements from earlier styles such as the Italianate style were commonly used for
the French Second Empire. Most of the windows on the first story have vinyl replacement sash. 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: “This cottage was built on lot no. 12 of
Alfred Lilly’s subdivision plan for the land north and west of the Free Congregational Society’s land at the corner of North Main and Meadow Streets. Mr. Lilly was a charter member of
the Society and prominent in their affairs. In 1887, he paid $3000 for the tract of land which eventually became Lilly Street and its residential lots. The cottage first appears on the
1884 atlas and is is owned by Gary H. Emerson, a joiner, who perhaps built the house himself. In 1888, the property was purchased by William and Miranda Smith. Mr. Smith was a jeweler
on Main Street in Florence, and served as postmaster for Florence during the 1890’s.” 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. 420-P. 179, 416-535, 379-74, 359-390 and 391, 337-483