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Munroe Street 39.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-112 Easthampton NTH.1031 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 39 Munroe Street Historic Name: Luther G. Stearns House Uses: Present: Single family Original: Single family Date of Construction: 1894-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Attached two-story carriage house Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.17 acres Setting: House sits close to the street on a corner lot in a residential neighborhood of turn of the century homes. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [39MUNROE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.1031 __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 early Colonial Revival style home with a pyramidal roof. The slate roof features a hipped roof dormer with paired casement windows on the northern and eastern slopes and a small eyebrow dormer on the western slope of the roof. There is a one story porch with low-pitched hipped roof that extends across the full width of the front façade. The porch has has Tuscan columns and balustrade with square balusters. Windows on the home have six over one sash on the upper floor and one over one sash on the first floor. Window surrounds are flat stock with a drip edge. Adding visual interest to the front façade is rondel style window. On the eastern elevation of the home is a two story bay with a paneled trim separating the first and second stories of the bay. On the southwestern elevation of the home is a shallow rear wing. Attached to the rear of the home is a two-story carriage house. 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: “Luther Stearns was listed as a concrete paver when he had this house built in 1894-1895.” 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 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. 470-P.95