South Street 133-135.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 38B-034 Easthampton NTH.2187 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 133-135 South Street
Historic Name: Eleazar Strong Homestead Uses: Present: Three unit residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: c. 1797 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Federal
Architect/Builder: Eleazar Strong Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick and stone Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.167 acres Setting: House sits on a corner lot is is located very close to the street. The house is surrounded by informal plantings.
House is in a residential neighborhood of former single family homes that have been converted to buildings with two or more residential units.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [133-135 SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2187 __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 story Federal style home under a truncated hipped roof with cornice line that is
ornamented with Federal modillion blocks. This clapboard sided house has a symmetrical five bay front façade. At the center of the front façade is a recessed entry with wide trabeated
surround that encloses three-quarter length sidelights. The front entrance is covered by a portico with flat roof and rounded columns. The southern and northern elevations of the home
also have center entries covered by porticos. The porticos were likely late 19th century alterations to the home. The portico on the southern elevation has a low-pitched hipped roof
and square columns, and its entry door has pilasters and a transom. The portico on the northern elevation has rounded columns, similar low-pitched roof, screening, and modern door. Windows
sit close to the roof line and mostly six over six sash. Window surrounds have Italianate shed roof lintels, which were probably added at the same time as the porticos. The house has
two large two interior chimneys and a foundation comprised of stone and brick. 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 1970: “Eleazar Strong, born in l754, built this house about 1797.
He was the son son of Ithamar and brother of Captain David, both boatmen on the Connecticut River. Ithamar was a Revolutionary War soldier. Eleazar married Mindwell, daughter of Noah
Parsons Junior and Phoebe Bartlett. They had nine children. He and several sons were carpenters. One son Joseph was an architect and Thomas was a farmer. George, the 7th child, born
in 1792, succeeded his father and married Lydia Bartlett in 1820. He died of a fall in 1833 and his widow survived him for nearly half a century. Their sons were in the army and one
in the navy. William was for three years in the tenth regiment, took part in many battles, and his regiment was part of the Army of the Potomac. Three generations lived in this house
during an interval of one hundred years. After the property left the Strong family, it was Owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Elizah H. Bartlett and Mr. and Mrs. Levi Bartlett. Deeded
by Frank H . Roberts to Clarence E. Hodgkins, County Commissioner, October 16, 1911, he occupied it with his daughter until until his death. His daughter occupied the house in the 1970s
and rented two apartments in the 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. Solomon Clark, Antiquities, Historicals and Graduates
of Northampton ( 1881) Information from owner Miss Alida B. Hodgkins in 1970.