North Main Street 61.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.2536 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 61 North Main Street Historic
Name: Jehiel Davis House Uses: Present: residential/commercial Original: residential Date of Construction: 1869-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds, map of 1873 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2000. siding
added, ca. 1970. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.5 acres Setting: This house faces south and shares a lot with two other houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [61 North Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2536 ___ 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 Italianate style was favored in Florence above other styles during the 1850s through the 1870s
and this house is representative of the architectural level of the mainstream. It is relatively simple in form, but has the distinctive decorative ornament and features of the style.
The house is front-gabled and is two-and-a-half stories in height. It is three bays wide and a tower at its southeast corner adds a fourth bay. It is the equivalent of four bays deep
and has a two-story ell on the north with side porches on both first and second stories on the east elevation. The porch on the first story is partially enclosed. There is a full-width
porch on the south façade that is supported on Italianate style posts with scroll-cut brackets at the eaves. As was typical of Italianate houses, the porch has no railings. First floor
windows on the south façade are full-length, a feature of the style and lintels are shallow pedimented hoods with bracket supports. The door surround follows the same pattern. 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 three houses on this lot, 61 North Main Street. The two other houses on this lot were added after
1900, possibly as workers’s housing for the nearby Florence Furniture Company. 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.