North Main Street 59.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-249 Easthampton NTH.118 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 59 North Main Street Historic
Name: Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: post-1915 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Front-gable Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: parged brick Wall/Trim: concrete Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | |
Date Acreage: 0.5 acres Setting: This is one of three houses on the lot and is set back from from the street to the rear lot line.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [59 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.118 ___ 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 small concrete house is one-and-a-half stories in height. It is three bays wide at the first
story and one bay wide at the second story. It has a front-gable roof with no chimney on the roof ridge but with two exterior chimneys on a west wing that is one-story in height. The
house is spare in stylistic features with a single diamond pane window on the east elevation and a porch across the south façade on fieldstone piers. The roof has fairly wide eaves that
are thinly boxed. This building was probably built as worker’s housing in the Craftsman style. Concrete as a building material for workers’s housing in Northampton and in Florence specifically
has a history that goes back to the 19th century, so this house is part of that 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: “In 1869, Jehiel Davis bought lots no. 6 and
7 of the Littlefield and Graves subdivision plan for the area bound by Graves Street (later Myrtle Street, now Bardwell Street), North Main Street and North Maple Street in Florence.
The house was built by 1873 as it is shown on the atlas of that year. Mr. Davis became superintendent of the Florence Furniture Co. when it was founded in 1873.” This history refers
to one of the the three houses on this lot, 61 North Main Street. It does not refer to the house at 59 North Main Street. On the Sanborn Insurance Maps for Northampton 61 North Main
Street is the last building to be identified and only in a sketchy manner. Neither this building nor the one at 61A appears on that map, which is not conclusive but suggestive that they
date after 1915. 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. Sanborn Insurance Maps, Northampton, 1915.
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