Randolph Place 2-18.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32C-163 Easthampton NTH.2147 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 2-18 Randolph Place
Historic Name: Randolph Place Row Uses: Present: Seven Unit Apartments Original: Sixteen Unit Apartments Date of Construction: circa 1890 Source: 1895 Atlas & Registry of Deeds Style/Form:
Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Stone Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Fair
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.37 acres Setting: Apartment rowhouse sits very close to the street in a commercial and multifamily housing neighborhood. A few shrubs line the
building.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [2-18 RANDOLPH PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2147 ___ 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 circa 1890 Randolph Place Row is located off one of Northampton’s historic commercial and industrial
corridors. This circa 1890 apartment block is one of at least six blocks in Northampton that follow similar Queen Anne designs. The building is two-and-and-half stories in height under
a side-gabled roof; however, the northeastern corner of the building, which faces Pleasant Pleasant Street, has a jerkin head roof. The repetitive use of two-story, three sided bays
and shed roof dormers down the length of the northern elevation apartment building divides the apartment block into seven sections. The first section, which consists of the portion of
the apartment block closest to Pleasant Street, is somewhat dissimilar from the other six sections in that the three sided bay is three stories tall and is topped by a steeply pitched
pyramidal roof to form a tower. In addition, the first section includes a single entry under a shed roof porch while the remaining six entries are paired. The small porches have turned
posts and solid balustrades. The other bays also have short extensions of the roof's front slope covering them. The roof line on the northern elevation is broken by ten twin shed dormers
with double windows. On the southern elevation, there are seven shed roof dormers. There are eight chimneys—four are located along the ridge of the roof while the remaining four are
located along the southern slope of the roof, which take the place of what otherwise would have been shed roof dormers. The block is clapboard sided and rests on a stone foundation.
Trim on the block consists of a vertical board frieze under the eaves, wide board beltcourses, shingled skirts on the bay windows between the first and second stories, and paneled bases
to the bay windows. 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 the Form B of 1980, “The Randolph Place Row is one of the few examples of the Victorian rowhouse in Northampton. There are a few apartment
buildings, but these were built in the 20th century. Unlike other industrial communities in Massachusetts that rose in the 19th century, Northampton and its villages of Bay State, Florence
and Leeds didn't have long rows of worker housing. The one example of a pre-Civil War rowhouse is in Bay State on Riverside Drive. All of the other rowhouses were constructed in the
last two decades of the 19th century and are located near the center of town. Of those consisting of at least five units, two are built of brick and five are wood frame construction.
This rowhouse was built shortly after 1888 when Dwight Horton acquired the Cook homestead on Pleasant St. Mr. Horton was a dealer in fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, land plaster,
Agricultural lime and salt, and hardwood Canada ashes. He was also a real estate agent. He had Randolph Place opened and had two double houses built on the street (only one of which
is standing) as well as this seven-unit row. Mr. Horton made the corner unit of the rowhouse (no. 2) his residence.” 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. 417-P. 257. Northampton Directory: 1895-96.