Munroe Street 16.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38B-094 Easthampton NTH.1019 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 16 Munroe Street Historic
Name: Uses: Present: Two family Original: Single family Date of Construction: c. 1870 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: probably W. F. Pratt
Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Vinyl Roof: Unknown Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Two bay garage with attached shed Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.3 acres Setting: House faces south to the street in an established residential neighborhood of former single family homes. House has a few shrubs
and trees on the property.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [16MUNROE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1019 _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-story Italianate style home with very low-pitched hipped roof with wide overhanging
eaves. It is almost identical to its next door neighbor at 20 Monroe Street. Although the house has been vinyl sided, it retains its historic proportions. The house plan is in the form
of a “L”. In the crook of the “L” is a one-story porch with low-pitched roof. The Italianate style porch is supported by square columns with impost blocks and that rest on pedestals.
The porch’s frieze board as well as the three-sided front entry have been covered over in vinyl making it difficult to discern any additional noteworthy features. On the eastern elevation
of the home is a three-side bay. The home appears to have retained its original two over two sash windows which are now partially hidden behind metal storm windows, but the windows has
lost their projecting cornices. The house has retained its iron grate ventilators along the vinyl frieze. The house has a two-bay brick garage with front-gable roof which is connected
to a one-bay wooden shed/garage with double leaf doors on hinges. 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 1975: “This Victorian residence was built on land to the rear of South Street about
1870. Similar in style to the adjoining H.M. Smith residence designed in 1869 by W. F. Pratt, the dwelling appears on the Atlas of 1873. Franklin (Munroe), East, and portions of High
(Lyman) Streets were opened in 1870 and residential development occurred in the area to the rear of the old colonial homesteads on South Street.” 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, Hampshire County, 275.100