North Elm Street 184.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, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 23B-42 Easthampton NTH.236 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 184 North Elm Street Historic
Name: Matthew O’Connor House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1914 Source: Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Craftsman
Architect/Builder: Matthew O’Connor, builder, attributed Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: stucco, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Shed Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.331 acres Setting: This house is set back from the street on a tree-shaded lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [184 NORTH ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.236 ___ 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 Matthew O’Connor House is a unique house in Northampton being an idiosyncratic mixture of the
Craftsman and Colonial Revival styles. It is a two-story house under a side-gambrel roof with a centered, gambrel-roofed pavilion. The fields of the gambrel roofs are shingle-sided.
The gambrel roofs, often linked to the Dutch Colonial Revival style, have wide eaves overhangs that are supported on hefty carved braces. On the main roof, flanking the pavilion, are
shed roofed dormers. The pavilion itself has a second pair of shed roof dormers that extend along its roofline as well. The roofs of both sets of dormers have exposed Craftsman style
rafters. The pavilion that is one bay wide at second story level spreads to occupy nearly the full width of the house at the first story level. At first story level it has a shed roof
beneath the pavilion and on its east façade is two bays wide. Each of the two bays is composed of a band of four vertical, single-light sash. Newly replaced, they duplicate the originals.
The shed roof of this section of the house is braced at its outer corners with braces that match those of the gambrel roofs. Entry to the house is on the south elevation of pavilion.
The entry is composed of an open gable portico with a King Post truss that is supported on carved braces. The main block of the house is stucco on the first floor and is four bays deep.
There is a jetty jetty between first and second stories ornamented with small brackets. On the north elevation an exterior wall chimney laces through the eaves in Craftsman fashion.
The house has a one-story, shed-roofed porch on its west 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: “This house was built in 1914 for Matthew O’Connor at a cost of $4000.
The 1915 directory lists Mr. O’Connor as a general contractor, carpenter, and mason, and he most likely constructed the house himself.” 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.