North Main Street 58.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-258 Easthampton NTH.123 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 58 North Main Street Historic
Name: Sylvester J. Bosworth House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1870 Source: Atlas and History of Florence Style/Form:
front-gabled house Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): House sided
in vinyl and windows replaced, ca. 2005. Porch supports replaced, ca. 1980. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.548 acres Setting: This house occupies a double lot
and faces north. Its side lot is landscaped.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [58 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.123 ___ 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. The Bosworth House is a relatively standard house form for the 1870s in Northampton and has several
examples on North Main Street. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof with a single chimney on its roof ridge. The building is three bays wide and the equivalent
of four bays deep and its windows have been replaced with 1/1 vinyl sash. What remains on the the north façade suggesting the house may have been Italianate in style originally is a
segmentally arched window in the gable field as well as a main entry whose door has arched glass panels in its upper half. The house has a one-and-a-half story ell on the south as well
as an enclosed side porch. The main entry has a pedimented portico that is supported on wrought iron railings, substitutions for earlier wood posts. 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 house was built for Sylvester Bosworth, a merchant and farmer, most likely during the 1870’s. In 1861, Mr. Bosworth had bought over 15 acres of land between Meadow
and North Main Streets for $1500. The deed states that this is the ‘homestead on which S.J. Bosworth now lives and occupies as a residence.’ However, this is probably referring to the
‘Polly Bosworth Bosworth Place’ which was a small, one story house at the junction of the two streets. This had been built in 1817 by William Warner, but long lived in by Polly Bosworth
and Sylvester J. The small house was removed when Cosmian Hall was built in the early 1870’s, and this is the probable date for the present house.” 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. 200-P. 13, 176-445