South Street 155.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): April 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38B-44 Easthampton NTH.2190 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 155 South Street Historic
Name: Martha A. Strong House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1895 Source: Gazette, Nov. 30, 1895 Style/Form: Colonial
Revival Architect/Builder: Roswell F. Putnam Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: Good Moved: no | | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.533 acre Setting: House sits on a corner lot in a 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] [155 SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2190 _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 Colonial Revival style home with fine classical features. The square house
is set off by fluted Ionic pilasters and a wide frieze with fine dentil row. On the frieze, there is a single colored wreath of laurel at the corners. The house is capped by a slate
pyramidal roof that has a matching pyramidal dormer with leaded tripartite window. The shed roof front porch has a large pediment with decorative swags and wreath of laurel in the tympanum.
The front porch has fluted square columns flanked by unfluted Ionic columns, a solid frieze with fine dentil row, and brick balustrade. The front entrance features a leaded stained glass
transom and sidelights. Most windows on the home are one over one sash and have eared architrave surrounds. Two of the first floor windows, located on at the southern and eastern elevations
at the southeast corner of the home, are much larger and have architrave surrounds topped by a segmental pediment. Other stylistic features include the paneled rondel at the center of
the front façade and a large ached window at the location of the stairwell on the northern elevation. The On the western elevation of the home is a two-story rear ell to which there
is a one story enclosed porch on the southern elevation. The house has at least two brick chimneys. 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 1980: “This large Colonial Revival house
was built during the early 1890’s from designs of Roswell Putnam. Mt. Putnam was a native of Leverett, Massachusetts and learned his trade in the office of a Worcester architect. He
returned to Leverett and began his practice there. Many of his commissions were in Amherst. In 1893, he opened an office with Lewis Bayley in Northampton and moved here the next year.
Within two years, the Gazette was able to publish a list of a dozen houses that the firm had designed in Northampton. Mr. Bayley moved to Hartford in 1897 and Mr. Putnam continued the
practice alone. His son, Karl S. Putnam, joined as a partner about 1910, and after the elder Putnam’s death in 1911, continued his practice.” 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. 475-P. 19