North Main Street 94.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-264 Easthampton NTH.129 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 94 North Main Street Historic
Name: Joseph and Harriet Bush House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1867-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Queen
Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows
replaced, ca. 2005 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.26 acres Setting: This house occupies a full corner lot in a residential section of Northampton.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [94 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.129 ___ 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 Bush House is a one-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof. It is three bays wide
and the equivalent of four bays deep and it has a one-story ell on the south for a long, rectangular plan. The house has a Queen Anne style porch across its north façade with turned
posts supporting a shed roof and with arched braces at the eaves. A nice detail that raises the house above the most ordinary is the use of full-length first floor windows on the north
façade. Railings that were in place in 1980 have been removed so that the windows are more visible, and this may have been the original appearance of the porch. There is a small angled
bay window on the east elevation of the house and a single, rectangular stair window. The house has a center chimney. 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: “Joseph and Harriet
Bush purchased 1 ½ acres from Polly Bosworth on the western side of North Main Street in Florence for $800 in 1867. This house was probably built soon thereafter. In 1873, the property
was sold for $3000 plus a mortgage of $1238.56 to Joel Burt. Mr. Burt, a farmer, lived here only a year before selling to John Smith, who likewise only maintained the property for a
year. In 1875, the Rev. Martin Chapin of Holyoke purchased this house and land and made it his homestead. Rev. Chapin was connected with the Methodist-Episcopal Church in Florence, and
sold the southern half of his land to the church for $1, and contributed at least $1300 for the building of the parsonage thereon.” 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. 317-P. 333, 309-330, 303-151 ad 246-205