North Street 154.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-9 Easthampton NTH.384 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 154 North Street Historic Name: Joseph
Lyman-Isaac & Martha Bates House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1799-1807 Source: Registry of Deeds, 14.487, 25.586 Style/Form:
Federal Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick visible Wall/Trim: asphalt siding Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding
applied, porch removed, chimney(s) removed, n.d. Condition: fair/poor Moved: no | | yes | x | Date ca. 1848 Acreage: 0.213 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot and faces south.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [154 NORTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.384 ___ 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 is a fine, high style Federal house that ranks among the best in Northampton though its condition
is compromised. The house is two stories in height under a low-pitched hipped roof on which only one chimney remains, though there would have been at least two originally. The five bay
south façade has a center pavilion in which at the first story is a double leaf entry under a transom and framed by an architrave surround. At the pavilion’s second story is a Palladian
window composition beneath a pediment. A row of dentils ornaments the cornice and pavilion’s raking eaves. The high style features of the house include first floor windows that have
lintels with pulvinated friezes. Sash has been replaced with vinyl. The current porch is Italianate in style and would have been added to the house ca. 1850. A ghost remains between
first and second stories of a full-width porch that also is likely to have been a later addition. 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 1975: “This delicately detailed residence first
stood on Bridge Street and was moved about 1848 by J.S. Lathrop. Martha Bates, widow of Senator Isaac Bates, sold the property to J.S. Lathrop in March of that year for $4000. On the
two acres on Bridge Street, J.S. Lathrop soon built the residence still standing known as the Lathrop-Butler House. Although known as the Isaac Bates House, the residence relocated on
North Street was apparently not built for Bates. Bates purchased a lot—then one acre—with buildings from Joseph Lyman in 1807 for $3000; Lyman acquired the property in 1799 for only
$500. A house of this quality and style would likely have been built between the dates 1799 and 1807 in Northampton. Senator Bates served in the state and U.S. senates. His widow, Martha
Bates, lived in the residence for a number of years following its removal to North Street.” 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, Hampshire County, 122.364, 25.586, 14.487