Meadow Street 35.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 23A-2 Easthampton NTH.157 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 35 Meadow Street Historic Name:
Oscar Powell House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1867 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: eclectic Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Two garages Major Alterations (with dates): Window replacement, ca. 1990
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.614 acres Setting: This house is set on a high lot with a south-facing orientation.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [35MEADOW STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.157 ___ 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 very idiosyncratic house, due, perhaps, to alterations during the Queen Anne stylistic
period. To begin with, the two-and-a-half story house has a side-gable roof that ends on the west in a hip rather than a gable, though this is not visible in the photograph attached
to this form. There is a cross-gable on the south façade and the west slope of its roof descends to a one-and-a-half story level with two, through-cornice dormers penetrating the eaves
on the west elevation. There is a one-story, rectangular bay window on the north façade adjacent to a porch with a pedimented entry. The porch is Queen Anne in style with a spindled
frieze, turned posts and railings. The exterior of the house is clapboard sided except for the gable ends which are shingled. Despite its eclectic nature, the house is picturesque in
the manner of the later 19th century. 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: “Samuel Lee and Nathan Hessey bought half an acre of land fronting on Meadow Street for $180 in
early 1867. A few months later, they sold the property with ‘our new dwelling house thereon’ for $1475 to Oscar Powell. Within the next decade the house was owned by two other owners
before Omer Smith bought it in 1877. Mr. Smith was a foreman in the finishing department of the Nonotuck Silk Co.” 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. 335-P. 333, 319-313, 312-272, 308-67, 244-421, 24-2