Orchard Street 36.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-169 Easthampton NTH.399 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 36 Orchard Street Historic Name: Uses:
Present: Three-family residence Original: Three-family residence Date of Construction: 1897-1915 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows replaced, ca. 2005.
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.152 acres Setting: This house faces north on a short, residential street that leads off of a major thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [36 ORCHARD STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.399 ___ 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. One of two on Orchard Street, this building of three stories is one of the few triple-deckers built
in Northampton where two family houses and apartment rows were more often chosen as the preferred forms for multi-family housing. The building has a full-width porch on the first story
and one-bay-wide stacked porches at the second and third stories of the north façade. A shallow angled bay window rises all three stories on this façade. The center window of the bay
at each story is a large, fixed-light window with a leaded glass transom. The shallow bay, fixed-light window and transoms are repeated on the east elevation and small horizontal stair
windows on the east elevation are also glazed with leaded glass. The porches are supported on Colonial Revival posts with small brackets at their roof eaves. The brackets are also found
on the eaves of the main roof acting as classical modillion blocks above a frieze and narrow dentil row. 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 around
the turn-of-the-century along the eastern side of Bridge Street cemetery. It was a residential street, and was quickly developed, mostly with two-family houses.” 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. 503-P. 130 and 131