North Street 83.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-182 Easthampton NTH.401 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 83 North Street Historic Name: Pratt
House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1850-1860 Source: map of 1860 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Thomas Pratt,
attributed Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asbestos Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added, ca. 1950 Condition:
fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.324 acres Setting: This house faces south rather rather than towards the street on which it is located.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [83 NORTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.401 ___ 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 two-story house under a flat roof with wide eaves overhang in the Italianate style. A
row of over-scaled dentils ornaments the cornice line on the main roof and on the porch roof. The house is on brick foundations and is currently sided in asbestos shingles. It is five
bays wide and three deep, and has an added, half-width porch on the south façade that is supported on Colonial Revival style columns. Adjacent to the porch is an angled bay window of
one story. Windows of the south façade’s first story have crown molding lintels and the main entry has an Italianate braced hood over a transom light. The house has a two-story wing
on the east that is three bays long. This house is unusual in its combination of Italianate and Colonial Revival styles. 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 1976: “Thomas Pratt, local
architect and designer of numerous Federal and Greek Revival style residences in Northampton, was born in 1784 in eastern Massachusetts and began his career as an architect and builder
in Northampton in 1807. Several substantial monuments remain: Dewey House and Capen House, Smith College, two Greek Revival residences, and the architect’s own residence on North Street.
William Fenno Pratt, his son, also practiced the profession, beginning in 1837 with Miss Dwight’s Gothic seminary, a vigorous exercise in the picturesque. The structure was probably
built shortly after Thomas Pratt acquired the ½ acre tract from Elijah Hayden and Thomas Clark in 1811. The home remained in the Pratt family throughout the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.” This house as it currently appears would not have been built in 1812. The assumption of the 1976 form that a house was built soon after the land was purchased does not necessarily
follow. The 1831 map is inconclusive, but the house does appear on the 1860 map, a date that is consistent with its style and brick foundations, which in 1812 would have been granite.
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, 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: 1784.204, 1745.111, 1060.264, 902.147, 344.61, 146.136,
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