Munroe Street 37.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-111 Easthampton NTH.1030 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 37 Munroe Street Historic
Name: Richard J. Davis Jr. House Uses: Present: Two family Original: One family Date of Construction: circa 1870 Source: Atlas and Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: 1.5 story connected barn Major Alterations (with dates): Replacement windows
Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.18 Setting: House sits close to the street in an established residential neighborhood of mostly former single family homes.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [37MUNROE ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet
1 NTH.1030 __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 Italianate style house with a front gable roof and a cross gable on its western elevation.
The house is three bays wide and two bays deep. It has an entry portico with low pitched hipped roof supported by paired square posts on plinths. All windows on the house are 2/2 sash
replacements, but the windows retain their original architrave surrounds with projecting lintels. The front gable field has a small 2/2 sash arched Italianate style window with a peaked
lintel. The eastern elevation of the house has a one-story, three-sided bay window. The western elevation has a two story wing that is one bay wide. The house has a center ridgeline
brick chimney. There is a two story rear ell with screened porch on the second story on its eastern elevation. This house is identical in form to the homes at 25 and 29 Monroe Street.
There is a two-story carriage house connected to the rear of the home that is clad in wood shingle and clapboard. 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 was the first house
built on the southern side of Munroe Street, and is the only house shown on the 1873 Atlas. David N Clapp, a South Street farmer and member of the family that settled on South Street
Street in 1704, owned all of the land south of Munroe Street from South Street easterly over the brow of the old Mill River terrace into the meadows. In the early 1870’s, he began selling
lots for homesteads on the south side of Munroe Street. Richard B. Davis Jr. was a carriage maker, working for the firm of R. B. Davis & Company, which was located on South Street near
the present ??.” 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. 262-P. 83, 262-1