Pine Street 110-112.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-149 Easthampton NTH.208 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 110-112 Pine Street Historic
Name: Florence Congregational Church Parsonage Uses: Present: three-family house Original: one-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1860 Source: History of Florence Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.01 acres Setting: This house is located in a neighborhood of largely 19th century houses and its street is broad and tree-shaded.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [110 PINE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.208 __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. This is a two-and-a-half story house under a side-gable roof with an Italianate style, centered,
transverse gable. It is only three bays wide and three bays deep, but the proportions of the house are large, which was a feature of the later Italianate style. It has a hipped roof,
partly glassed-in porch across the north façade and a portion of the east elevation. The porch rests on turned posts with brackets at its eaves. There is a one-and-a-half story wing
on the west elevation. It is two bays wide and has one interior chimney, wide boxed eaves and a side entry with double windows at one side. Florence has many fine examples of the Italianate
style and this house ranks among the late versions with large proportions and simplified detail. 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. According to Form B of 1980, “This […] house was originally
built as a parsonage for the Florence Congregational Church. The land for the church and parsonage was donated by the Greenville Manufacturing Company, a large cotton cloth manufactory
in Florence. The church was dedicated in October of 1861 and the parsonage was probably ready soon thereafter.” 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. Sheffeld, Charles (ed.) History of Florence, Florence,1895.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [110 PINE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.208 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 Congregational Church Parsonage would contribute to a Florence Center Historic District. The potential historic district
of Florence Center is significant as the commercial, residential, institutional center of the village that developed from 1657 when it was set off as Northampton’s “Inner Commons” as
agricultural land and 1681 when the first sawmill was erected at a falls on the Mill River. The agricultural and industrial village developed through the 18th and 19th centuries around
industry on the Mill River, agriculture on the alluvial flood plain and the Strong Tavern and later Cottage Hotel at the intersection of Main and Maple Streets. It is significant for
the silk industry that flourished through the Civil war as an alternative to slave-picked cotton and for the establishment of the Northampton Association for Education and Industry,
a utopian community that existed 1843-1847. Association members after its close continued in Florence their principles of equality by running the Underground Railroad through the village
and harboring fugitive slaves. It is significant as the home of Sojourner Truth. 19th century industry in the Center included the Florence Sewing Machine Company, which built its own
housing. Architecturally the Center is significant for the range of Gothic Revival, Italianate, Stick Style, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style homes, for its
commercial blocks and library in the Revival styles of the late 19th century. Gothic Revival and Italianate style churches are architect-designed in high style versions. The potential
district has integrity of workmanship, design, feeling, association, and materials.