North Street 45.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-214 Easthampton NTH.410 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 45 North Street Historic Name: Rebecca
Rogers Cottage Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1846 Source: Registry of Deeds, 115.450 Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: board-and-batten Roof: asphalt and metal Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Ell added on east,
ca. 1970. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.229 acres Setting: This house occupies a raised corner lot in a residential neighborhood.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [45 NORTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.410 ___ 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. Northampton has several Gothic Revival houses that represent the style well, and the Rebecca Rogers
House is among them. It is a one-and-a-half story, board-and-batten sided house under a side-gable roof that has a steep Gothic pitch. The main block of the house is three bays wide
and two bays deep and there is are two ells on the east of two stories and of one-and-a-half stories. A cross-gable and a through-eaves dormer are located on the west side of the roof
of the main block. They are asymmetrically placed to suggest a medieval elevation and their eaves and those of the main roof are ornamented with carved bargeboards. The house has an
oriel window on the north elevation and an angled bay window on the south. The angled bay window is two stories and windows in it have pointed architrave surrounds and sawtooth molding
at the cornice. Sash in the house is 6/6. A glassed-in, shed roofed porch with a pediment over its entry is found on the west façade adjacent to a secondary entry with a metal hood.
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 cottage was built on North (Market) Street sometime between 1846 and 1857. It appears that the original owner of the cottage was Rebecca
Rogers, who purchased a lot of land on Market Street in 1846 from Josiah Whitney. John Rogers, her son, sold the homestead in 1857 to Samuel Spaulding, who in turn sold to Horace Kingsley
in 1860. In 1891, Frances Kingsley sold the Kingsley homestead to Elizabeth Allen who in turn sold to her daughter, Clara Allen. The exchange of property is complicated; the Allen family
also owned a homestead on North Street which divided into lots in 1891. Linden Street was opened at this time, and Clara Allen owned a number of other lots along the street. Janet C.
Smith, a student from the area, has pointed out that the design and floor plan of this cottage are to be found in one of Andrew Jackson Downing’s volumes of cottage residences. There
was apparently little creative effort on the part of the local architect or builder.” The last statement is a bit harsh as translating book drawings into a house took considerable creative
effort to keep the building authentically Gothic Revival. 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: 1226.158,
1145.235, 804.105, 576.143, 218.198