Orchard Street 4.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, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 25C-160 Easthampton NTH.397 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 4 Orchard Street Historic Name: Uses:
Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Chester White, Builder, attr.
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added, ca. 1970; windows
replaced, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.342 acres Setting: This house occupies a lot with a large side yard. It is on a residential street with both
single and two-family houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [4 ORCHARD STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.397 ___ 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, Queen Anne style house appears to have been constructed by the same
builder who was responsible for a number of similarly designed houses in Northampton, Chester White. With small variation this house resembles the Chester White House at 222 Bridge Street,
for instance. The house has a pyramidally hipped roof with cross-gables on the north and east and a three-story tower in the angle between the main block and the east cross-gable. Characteristic
of White’s towers, the roof of the tower has an exaggerated bell profile. Adding complexity to the elevation, the north the cross gable has a jerkin head roof. A hipped roof porch on
posts extends on two sides of the tower. It has jigsaw-cut braces and railings, and its apron is also ornamentally cut adding visual activity favored by the Queen Anne style. A second,
two-story porch is located on the east elevation where the posts, braces and railings are repeated. Typical of the houses that are known to have been built by White, there is a large,
fixed light window on the north façade. 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: “A plan for Orchard Street and residential lots was filed in 1897 by Sidney A. Clark and Josiah
S. Graves, owners of adjacent Bridge Street homesteads, and H.R. Hinckley, the owner of a large parcel of land off North Street. The street was quickly developed, mostly with two-family
residences.” 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