North Main Street 130.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-24 Easthampton NTH.69 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 130 North Main Street Historic
Name: Emory C. and Isabel G. Davis House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1865-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: Stick Style Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.663 acres Setting: This is a north-facing house with the Mill River on its south boundary.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [130 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.69 ___ 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 house is idiosyncratic and somewhat difficult to place stylistically, but in essence it is
a Stick Style house that is transitional to Queen Anne. The house is a common, gable-and-wing form, one-and-a-half stories in height and sided in wood shingles that have long been painted
dark in color. The steeply-pitched front-gabled roof has eaves that are stepped forward at the gable peak, and supported on braces. This roof form is seen on two houses on Massasoit
Street, both of which are Queen Anne in style. The gable then is trussed in Stick Style fashion, and the truss is ornamented with jigsaw-cut lattice work. The gable truss treatment is
repeated in a cross-gable on the west side of the roof of the main block of the house and again in the west gable of the one-and-a-half story wing of the house. The north façade of the
main block is three bays wide. Door and window surrounds are bracketed hoods, typical of the Stick Style and centered between first and second stories is a balcony on braces with elaborate
tracery ornament. Sash in the house is vertical 4/1 and there is a breezeway connector between the wing of the house and a garage. The wing that is two bays wide has shed roof dormers
on its north and south roof elevations. 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 1865, Isabel and Emory Davis bought half an acre of land fronting on North Main Street in Florence
for $140. The street was the old ‘road to Williamsburg’ of the 18th century, but wasn’t developed residentially until the mid 1860’s. Mr. Davis worked for the Florence Sewing Company,
but soon went into business for himself as a surveyor and civil engineer. He became the city engineer, and formed a partnership with his son Eugene, who was also a surveyor and civil
engineer. They were located in downtown Northampton and maintained the business until the elder Davis’s death about 1910.” 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. 299-P. 163, 231-398