Phillips Place 51.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):
May, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-201 Easthampton NTH.2089 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 51 Phillips Place Historic Name: Charles
H. Kinney House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1848 Source: Registry of Deeds 119.201 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.273 acres Setting: This house faces north and is set behind a picket fence.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [51 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2089 _x__ 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. The Kinney House is a two-story house under a hipped roof with wide eaves that has two ornamental,
interior chimneys. The house is three bays wide and two bays deep and has a one-and-a-half story ell on the south followed by a one-story ell for a T-shaped plan. There is a side-porch
on the east elevation of the ells. The clapboard sided house has an added, Colonial Revival style style porch resting on half-length columns on its north facade. Windows have 2/2 sash.
Although the house represents a very conservative approach, it is yet Italianate in style with its elongated first floor windows with their heavy cornice lintels, the wide eaves and
angled bay window on the west elevation of the first ell. All these features are common to the style. 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 1975: “C.H. Kinney was one of the first
to buy land in Phillips Place when the street was opened in 1847. The ‘Plan of Phillips Place’ drawn by W.F. Pratt indicated Kinney’s lot (no. 13) on the southerly side of the street.
Kinney later purchased the lot adjoining (no. 14) and sold a portion of no. 14 to M.E. White in 1855.” 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, Hampshire County, 119.201, 125.375
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [51 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2089 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Kinney House would contribute to a potential Pomeroy Terrace historic district that developed south and east of the
Bridge Street Cemetery from the second third of the 19th century as Northampton’s finest residential district. Original residents here were merchants, retired farmers, lawyers, and other
professions. As the century progressed the adjacent streets were laid out for the growing middle class with railroad personnel joining clerks, teachers, and others. Architecturally the
potential historic district is significant for the fine examples of the 19th century architectural styles from the Greek and Gothic Revivals, Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival
styles. The district includes significant examples of the work of Northampton architect William Fenno Pratt. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting,
design and materials.