Old South Street 67-69.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31D-224 Easthampton NTH.2007 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 67-69 Old South Street
Historic Name: Kingsley House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: c. 1840 Source: visual evidence Style/Form: Greek Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: Stone & Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Front porch (19th century) Condition:
Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.354 acres Setting: Property faces south onto onto a busy street. Street comprised of former single family homes that have been converted
into apartments or commercial use. Shrubbery lines the front of this lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [67-69 OLD SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2007 ___ 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 Greek Revival style home is two-and-a-half stories in height with side gabled slate roof.
It is five bays wide and two bays deep. The five-bay facade is set off by corner pilasters and a wide frieze board. The front façade is dominated by a porch with a low pitched roof,
projecting boxed cornice, and large square pillars with pronounced capitals. The center entrance is very much in the Greek Revival style with its wide trabeated surround that encloses
three-quarter length sidelights. Windows on the home are six over six sash and have corner block surrounds. The house has two interior chimneys that are of slightly different size and
placement. There have been three two-story rear extensions of this home. 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 property was part of the Kingsley homestead, established on
South Street in 1739 by Samuel Kingsley Jr. The homestead originally was bounded on the north and west by the Mill River and on the south and east by South Street. This large house appears
to have been built early in the second third of the 19th century.” Subsequent research by Steve Strimer of the David Ruggles Center, Florence has determined that in the 1850s this house
was occupied by Ebenezer Kingsley who was the father-in-law of Moses Breck, abolitionist and temperance advocate. After Moses and Judith Breck’s house on Elm Street was burned ca. 1850
by anti-temperance arsonists, the Brecks moved in with Judith’s father and appear here on the federal censuses of 1850-1870. Breck was a conductor on the Underground Railroad in Northampton,
and this role may also have contributed to the arson. According to Strimer, “He [Breck] would have been neighbors with Seth Hunt another white UGRR agent on Conz Street (house extant)
and several families of African Americans. 1880 census shows him living with his nephew Aaron Breck, Jr. His obituary says he died in the house of his brother-in-law Elijah Kingsley
who was in the South Street house.” 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. Antiquities, Historicals, and Graduates of Northampton,
1882, pages 137-139