Pine Street 121.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-144 Easthampton NTH.204 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 121 Pine Street Historic Name: Dr. G.
A. Willey House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Date of Construction: 1873-1884 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation:
brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asbestos Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage Barn Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x
| yes | | Date Acreage: 0.473 acres Setting: This house faces south on a tree-shaded lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [121 PINE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.204 _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 large Italianate style house that is two-and-a-half stories under a front-gable roof
with wide, bracketed eaves. It is three bays wide and there is a full-width porch on the south façade that rests on highly unusual posts that have two pedestals rather than the usual
single pedestal. Elaborate scroll-cut brackets ornament the porch eaves. The house has a cross-gabled bay bay on the east elevation and a one-and-a-half story ell followed by a one-story
ell for a long, rectangular plan. The cross-gabled bay has bracketed eaves between the two stories and at its roofline. The first north ell has a side porch that has been glass enclosed
and on the ell roof is a shed roof, through-cornice dormer. The house has a carriage barn in its rear yard. 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. On the map of 1873 this lot was owned by Henry F. Manchester.
According to the census of 1870 Manchester worked in a screw factory in Northampton and lived in a household with his wife Emmeline, their small children Eva and Frank. The Manchesters
owned their own house at that point elsewhere in Florence. Between 1873 and 1884 this house was built and in 1884 it was occupied by Dr. G. A. Willey. Dr. Willey does not appear in the
federal censuses for Northampton in 1880 and 1900 but in 1900 Robie Willey, the ten year old grandson of Octavia Atkins does. Olivia Atkins owned the house next door on Pine Street and
it appears that Robie’s parents were not part of the household. In 1895 the house was in the ownership of P. Atkins who also does not appear in the censuses of 1880 and 1900, nor in
the directories after 1893. But there appears to be a family relationship between the Willeys and the Atkins that carried over several decades with this house. 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. 393-P. 292, 304-72
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [121 PINE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.204 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.