North Main Street 124.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 16D-25 Easthampton NTH.70 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 124 North Main Street Historic
Name: James Perry House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1864-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Gothic
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows
replaced ca. 2005. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.514 acres Setting: Thi8s is a north facing house and to its south is the Mill River.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [124 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.70 ___ 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 Perry House is a fine example of a Gothic Revival style house in gable-and-wing form. The front-gabled
section is one-and-a-half stories in height, has a steeply pitched roof with wide eaves and a broad raking frieze. In the gable field is a Gothic Revival style quatrefoil ornament above
a single bay composed of a triple window composition with three equally-sized but narrow 1/1 sashes. At the first story a side hall entry is adjacent to an angled bay window. The wing,
also one-and-a-half stories in height has a centered, shed roof dormer on its roof. At the first story it has a centered entry in an enclosed, front-gabled portico with a blind bay on
its east and a fixed light window on its west. The clapboard-sided house has replacement 1/1 sash. 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 1864, James Perry bought ½ an
acre fronting on North Main Street from Bela Gardner for $200. Mr. Perry was a painter and his house first appears on the 1873 atlas.” 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. 4330P. 510, 231-275