Munroe Street 21-23.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-107 Easthampton NTH.1026 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 21-23 Munroe Street
Historic Name: Uses: Present: Two family Original: Two family Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne /Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Brick Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Second floor screen porch added, mid 20th century Condition: Good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.16 acres Setting: House sits very close to the street in an established residential neighborhood of mostly former single family homes. House has a few
shrubs in the small front yard.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [21-23MUNROE ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1026 _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 home with front gable roof. The house is transitional in style,
showing features from both the Queen Ann and Colonial Revival styles. The house reportedly was constructed as a two-family house with horizontal separation, so that each family has a
complete floor. The house features a two-story Queen Anne style bay with slate roof at the northwest corner corner of the facade. A stacked half-porch covers the rest of the front facade.
The porch has large columns resting on fieldstone pedestals, which shows the influence of the Craftsman Style. Separating the first and second levels of the porch is a mansard-type roof.
The segmentally arched windows have brownstone sills and are six over one sash. The house has a single brick chimney located on the ridge. The house rests on a brick foundation and is
capped by a slate roof. 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: “Munroe St. was laid out in the early 1870's along the northern edge of David Munroe Clapp's South Street homestead.
Originally known as Franklin Ave. the name was changed in 1882 and by 1884 six houses had been built on the street. By 1895 this total had increased to sixteen houses. This brick house
was one of the the later houses to be built on the street.” Albert J. & Stephanie Descarage owned this house in 1980 when it was first inventoried and continue to own the house at the
time of this writing. 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. 413-p 39, 400-10 Northampton Directory:
1885-86, 1886-87