North Main Street 165.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-19 Easthampton NTH.67 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 165 North Main Street Historic
Name: Bennett Allen House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1870-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen
Anne/Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.496 acres Setting: This is a south-facing house on a residential section of Route 9.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [165 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.67 ___ 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 house with a front-gable roof and a two-and-a-half story cross-gable
bay on the west that holds the main entry to the house. The Queen Anne style house is one bay wide with the bay consisting of a pair of windows with 1/1 sash. At second story level is
a single window and at the attic level on this façade is an arched window. The finest feature of of the house is the porch that begins on the west elevation of the main block of the
building and continues down the west elevation beyond the bay. It is supported on half-length Colonial Revival style columns above a solid railing that is shingle-covered. At its southwest
corner the porch projects as a round gazebo beneath a low-pitched conical roof. In typical Queen Anne fashion, the house exterior is sided in varying materials to be visually active.
A band of wood shingles separates first and second floors and appears also in the gable fields of the 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: “In 1871, Bennett Allen, a carpenter,
bought about a half acre of land on the eastern side of North Main Street in Florence for $100. Mr. Allen probably built this house himself, and it 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