Park Street 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):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 23A-13 Easthampton NTH.160 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 26 Park Street Historic Name:
Miss Adeline Bowers House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1854-1860 Source: Maps Style/Form: no style Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Two wings added, ca. 1900; vinyl siding, vinyl
windows, side deck, ca. 2005. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.553 acres Setting: This house faces east on one of Florence’s main residential streets.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [26 PARK STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.160 ___ 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 is a one-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof to which were added a wing on the
north and a wing on the south – both one-and-a-half stories in height. The original house would have looked much like its neighbors at 32 and 36 Park Street. The main block is three
bays wide on the east façade with a side hall entry. Vinyl siding covers the original siding and window details. The wing on the north extends beyond the plane of the main block of the
house and it has an angled bay on its east façade. A wrap around porch on thin turned supports extends from the north wing, across the east façade and the south until it ends at the
projecting south wing. The south wing has an angled oriel window on its south elevation, a recent addition. This house has lost a good deal of its character by the application of vinyl
to its exterior. In its original form it typified the small rental house of the mid-19th century. 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 sprawling cottage is one of two owned
by Miss Adaline Bowers on the 1860 map. Lots had been laid out by E.W. Eaton in 1846-1847 for residential development along what later became Park, Maple, Pine and West Center Streets.
Most of Park Street was developed early and with substantial lots. On the western side of the street, five cottages were built prior to 1860 just south of the cemetery. In 1860, two
were owned by Miss Bowers and three by Isaac Parsons. By 1873, all five had been sold to individual owners.” 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. 283-P. 87, 242-289, 220-31