North Street 96.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 24D-93 Easthampton NTH.323 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 96 North Street Historic Name: Edward
B. Strong House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases and visual evidence Style/Form: Queen Anne/Colonial
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garages, separate and attached Major Alterations
(with dates): Siding added ca. 1980 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: Acreage: 1.55 acres Setting: This house faces east on a large open lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [96 NORTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.323 ___ 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 two-and-a-half story house with a pyramidal hipped roof is transitional from the Queen Anne
to the Colonial Revival styles. It has a two-and-a-half story ell on the west with an attached garage. The main block of the house is Colonial Revival with its hipped roof and simplified
2 x 3 bay plan. Its full width shed roof porch on the east façade rests on Colonial Revival style Doric columns and has a pedimented entry above a railing with square balusters. There
is a cross gable on the east façade roof that is shingled in Queen Anne style and has a Kings Truss with arched braces above a Queen Anne oriel window. Further remnants of the Queen
Anne are the bay window set at an angle at the southeast corner and the two-story bay window at the southwest corner, which has a polygonal roof. Sash in the house is a typical 2/2.
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 house was originally built c. 1890 for Edward Strong, a farmer, who also served as superintendent of the Bridge Street Cemetery for over
twenty years. The house replaced an earlier one, as Mr. Strong was the fifth generation of family to own this homestead on “North Market Street” (now known as North Street). Jerijah
Strong Jr. first settled here in 1737, the year of this marriage, and long remained exclusively a residential 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.