North Main Street 21.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 17C-254 Easthampton NTH.122 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 21 North Main Street Historic
Name: Charles L. Warren House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1863-1872 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form:
Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: wood shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.654 acres Setting: This building faces south and is near the center of Florence’s commercial district.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [21 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.122 ___ 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 fine Italianate style building, two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gabled
roof with wide eaves that are bracket-supported. The house is gable-and-wing in form with a one-and-a-half story wing on the east. The gable section of the house is three bays wide and
the wing is three bays wide with two small, knee-high windows on its south façade at the attic level. Door and window surrounds in the house are typically Italianate being pedimented
and their cornices supported on small brackets. The main door surround is broad and has full-length sidelights flanking its paneled door. Equally characteristic of the Italianate style
are the full-length first floor openings, French doors in this case. Sash in most of the windows is 2/2 and in the knee-high windows it is 3/3. The main block of the house has a full-width
porch supported on chamfered posts with finely-cut brackets at the eaves. The porch is without railings, a feature often found in the style in order to suggest an Italian arcade. 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 1862, Isaac Graves and D.G. Littlefield filed a subdivision plan for the area bounded by Graves (later Myrtle, now Bardwell), North Main and North
Maple Streets. The next year, Charles Warren bought lot no. 2 for $400. Mr. Warren was a farmer, and in later years a real estate developer. His residence was probably built soon after
the purchase and he lived here into the 20th century.” 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