North Main Street 166-168.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 16D-13 Easthampton NTH.61 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 166-168 North Main Street Historic
Name: Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Two-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1873 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard/Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.259 acres Setting: This is a north-facing house in a residential stretch on Route 9. Its land slopes down to the Mill River on the southeast.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [166-168 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.61 ___ 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 one of two, once-identical, two-family houses built side-by-side on North Main Street.
Its companion house is at 156-158. Of the two, this is the better preserved with its clapboard siding and original window configuration remaining. It is two-stories in height under a
hipped roof and is six bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep. A hipped roof of this pitch pitch is unusual for an Italianate period house and would more commonly be lower to
approximate a flat roof. The north façade has its two entries centered flanked at each side by two windows with 6/6 sash. The north façade has a one-story, full-width, shed-roofed porch
that is supported on Italianate style chamfered posts with solid brackets at its eaves. At the second story level there are two windows for each unit and two blind center bays. Secondary
entries are located on the east and west elevations of the house. They have glassed-in porticos that may have been later alterations. Although the two houses appear to have been on their
respective lots since the map of 1873, their footprints have changed significantly and further research is warranted on their history. 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 is one one of two virtually identical double houses built next to each other on the west side of North Main Street during the 1860’s. The street had existed since the 18th century
as the road to Williamsburg, but was not developed residentially until the 1860’s. Bela Gardner, a farmer, bought seven acres of land in 1863 and 1864, established his home on part of
the land and had these two double houses built by 1873. Afterwards, other lots fronting on the street were sold for residential development.” 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. 518-P. 7, 340-10, 223-323, 212-36