Myrtle Street 29.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, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24D-166 Easthampton NTH.326 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 29 Myrtle Street Historic Name: E.
Lee St. John House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1872-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Gothic Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no
| x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.183 acres Setting: This house faces south on a short, residential street
. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [29MYRTLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.326 ___ 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. The St. John House is the best-preserved of several closely-related, if not originally identical,
Gothic Revival houses on Myrtle Street. It is one-and-a-half stories in height under a steeply-pitched, front-gable roof that is ornamented with a Gothic bargeboard at the eaves. There
is a centered chimney on the roof ridge. The house is three bays wide and four bays deep and windows on the first floor west elevation have label lintels, characteristic of the Gothic
Revival style. Other windows have drip mold lintels. On the west elevation there are two, through-cornice dormers. Window sash is 2/2. Surrounding the house on the south and east is
a particularly fine porch on slender posts with scroll-cut connected braces at the eaves and openwork railings. There is a one-and-a-half story ell on the north elevation. 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: “In 1872, Dawson and Warner filed a subdivision plan for twelve lots on Pearl Street (now Myrtle Street) and the north side of Summer Street. They
had purchased the land in early 1871 and sold some lots immediately, but had ‘cottage houses’ erected on most of the lots to lease to tenants. This property first appears on the 1873
atlas as property of Dawson and Warner. In 1891, the house was sold to E. Lee St. John, a letter carrier, for $2250.” 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. 439-P. 191, 329-5, 277-15, 276-445 and 446