Pine Street 119.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 23A-143 Easthampton NTH.203 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 119 Pine Street Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1920 Source: visual evidence Style/Form: Tudor Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: stucco Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | |
Date Acreage: 0.424 acres Setting: This house faces south is a residential neighborhood that is tree-s
haded.INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [119 PINE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.203 _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. Rather than a bungalow, which was the stylistic designation applied to this house in 1976, it is
an unusual example of the Tudor Revival style that was popular during the same decades. The style came in many forms – modest cottages to grand houses – and this example of the style
falls within the modest cottage category being one-and-a-half stories in height. It is among the relatively few stuccoed examples, and with its jerkin head roof and stucco exterior falls
in a category of Tudor Revival called by publications of the time “Germanic Cottage” , as it was derived from European Tudor rather than English Tudor. Like the mainstream of Tudor Revival
houses, however, the south façade has a complicated elevation with an off-set pavilion under a jerkin head roof adjacent to an enclosed portico with a jerkin head roof, and a massive,
off-center chimney with decorative brickwork. This is a common form for the Tudor Revival. It also has a two-story, cross-gabled wing on the east under a jerkin head roof. The house
rests on high brick foundations above a brick skirt row. The center entry to the house is a stepped brick round arch with a brick tympanum. Windows are triple compositions, bands of
two and four sashes with 4/1 and 1/1 configurations. The house does not have half-timbering, but not all examples of this style had that feature. The house has a fine garage with a steeply-pitched
pitched roof and was contemporary with the house construction. 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 1976, “The bungalow style became popular in western Massachusetts just after 1910.
This bungalow is unique in that it is not shingled like other inventoried examples, but rather is stuccoed.” 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [119 PINE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.203 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. This property 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 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.