Orchard Street 24-26.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):
April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 25C-166 Easthampton NTH.398 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 24-26 Orchard Street Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Two-family residence Date of Construction: 1897-1915 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Vinyl siding and vinyl replacement windows, ca. 2005. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.197 acres Setting: This house faces north on on a residential street adjacent to a major thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [24-26 ORCHARD STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.398 ___ 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, two-family house represents the extent to which generous proportions
and complex volumes were used for two-family houses in Northampton at the turn of the century, which yet remained residential in scale. The Queen Anne/Colonial Revival style house has
a front-gable roof with two chimneys on its ridge. Its north gable end has a jetty in its gable field, a Queen Anne feature. Projecting from the north façade is an angled bay with a
front gable in whose field is a second jetty. A stacked, full-width porch crosses the north façade. At the second story the stacked porch section, one bay wide, has a pedimented roof.
This porch section has been enclosed and vinyl sided, but its paneled porch posts are still visible. At the first story level the porch extends beyond the north façade and ends in a
pedimented roof. It rests on battered posts that are paneled and set on high pedestals. Battered posts here and at 21-23 Orchard Street reflect the builders’ awareness of the Craftsman
style whose battered posts were inserted in this much more conservative house. Two cross-gables rather than the more common single cross gable extend from the east elevation and one
from the west adding to the complexity of the floor plan. The siding and replacement windows obscure and remove the building’s important details. 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: “Orchard Street was laid out about the turn-of-the-century along the eastern boundary of the Bridge Street cemetery. Most of the street was developed with two-family houses, some
of which were divided vertically (usually referred to as double house), and some horizontally (usually referred to as two-family houses). This house is an example of the latter method.”
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: Bk. 632-P. 270, 503-130 and 131