North Main Street 88.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 17C-263 Easthampton NTH.128 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 88 North Main Street Historic
Name: Florence Methodist-Episcopal Parsonage Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1881-1884 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows replaced, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.25 acres Setting: This is a north-facing house on a residential section of Route 9.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [88 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.128 ___ 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 parsonage follows in plan and elevation one of the most popular house forms of the late 19th
century, other examples of which are to be found in number on North Main Street. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front gable roof. It is three bays wide and the equivalent
of three bays deep. The clapboard-sided house has an angled bay window on the east and a cross-gable bay on the west, to add volume to the interior. The house has been well-maintained
and cared for since 1980 although its 2/2 wood sash has been replaced with 1/1 metal sash. In the gable field of the north façade is a Palladian window composition that together with
the wide eaves give the house an Italianate stylistic identity. 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 1881, the Reverend Martin Chapin sold one-third of an acre fronting on
North Main Street just south of his homestead to the Trustees of the Florence Methodist-Episcopal Church. Within the deed, it was stated that Rev. Chapin ‘will spend not less and $1300
within six months on the parsonage.’ The present house was built as the parsonage and is shown on the 1884 atlas. It continued in use as a parsonage until the Florence church merged
with the Northampton church in the mid-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: Bk. 346-P.
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