North Street 128.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 25C-5 Easthampton NTH.382 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 128 North Street Historic Name: Charles
W. Kinney House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1888-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Charles H. Jones, architect, attributed Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: aluminum/vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations
(with dates): House sided and windows replaced, ca. 1980-2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.713 acres Setting: This house faces south overlooking the Bridge
Street Cemetery.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [128 NORTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.382 ___ 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 Kinney House is a two-and-a-half story late Queen Anne style house that like its neighbor at
124 North Street was becoming simplified in plan and elevation as architectural tastes shifted away from the complexity of the full Queen Anne style towards the more geometric Colonial
Revival. The house has a pyramidal hipped roof with cross-gable bays on the south façade and the west west elevation. It has a wraparound porch that crosses the south façade and turns
on to the west elevation. Rather than turned posts, the porch rests on square posts and its railings have square balusters. Stairs to the porch are marked by a pediment on the porch
roof. The Queen Anne interest in picturesque elevations is found at the second story on the south façade where a recessed porch was created. Above it at the attic level is a projecting
oriel window that has a band of fixed, fifteen-light windows that are separated by scrolled consoles. North of the house is a large carriage barn that has been preserved when most have
been lost. 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 is one of five houses built around 1890 on the north side of North Street. Edward Strong, a farmer who owned a large homestead
on this street sold these lots for residential development between 1887 and 1895. In 1888, Charles Kinney, co-proprietor of the Hampshire Marble Co., bought this lot. This house appears
on the 1895 atlas, and bears resemblance in its front gable detail to several other houses in Northampton. All of these were most likely designed by Charles Jones, a prominent local
architect of the turn of the century period.” In 1880 Charles H. Jones listed himself as a painter in the federal census. He was living with his wife Mary, his mother Mehitable, and
two sons and a servant in Northampton. Then by 1893 Jones listed himself in the Northampton Directories as an architect and designer and he worked from an office on Court Street where
the family also lived. His work was contemporary with the firm of Putnam and Bayley, but less well-known, presumably because he worked largely as a decorator before becoming an architect.
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. 420-P. 37