North Main Street 172-174.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-12 Easthampton NTH.60 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 172-174 North Main Street Historic
Name: Martha Pease House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1892-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.175 acres Setting: This is a north-facing house in an an area of residential buildings on Route 9. The Mill River passes on the southwest.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [172-174 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.60 ___ 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 the best-preserved Queen Anne style house on North Main Street, as it retains its original
clapboard and shingle siding and its Queen Anne decorative trim. It is a two-and-a-half story house with a front-gable roof. This form is common on North Elm Street to accommodate the
long narrow lots and yet have sizeable houses. To achieve the complex interior volumes preferred by the style, the house has a cross-gable bay on the east and an ell on the south. A
wraparound porch crosses the north façade on to the east elevation where it ends at the bay. It is a stacked porch with a second story, one-bay wide screened-in porch on the north façade.
The porch is ornamented in lively Queen Anne fashion with a spindled frieze, turned posts and scroll-cut eaves brackets. The porch features are repeated on the east elevation of the
ell. Equally lively is the use of both shingles and clapboards as siding on the body of the house. Shingles separate first and second stories and are used again in the gable fields.
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 two-and-a-half story house was built during the early 1890’s on lot no. 3 of Bela Gardner’s subdivision plan for the western side of
North Main Street in Florence. Miss Martha Pease had bought this lot for $200 in 1892, and by 1895, the house was built and a number of members of the Pease family were listed as living
here.” 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. 449-P. 171, 340-10