South Street 171.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-81 Easthampton NTH.1009 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 171 South Street Historic
Name: Robert G. Williams House Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: 1894-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form:
Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Asbestos Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Asbestos
siding, mid 20th century Vinyl windows, post 1980 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.401 acre Setting: House sits 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] [171 SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1009 __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 story Colonial Revival style house with a hipped roof. It is three bays
wide and two bays deep and clad with asbestos. At the center of the front façade is a three story gabled entry pavilion. A distinguishing feature of the pavilion is the bowed tri-part
window with leaded cross-hatched glazing at the third story level. The house has a full width hipped roof porch with columns set in triples, balustrade with turned balusters, solid frieze,
and lattice apron. A clapboard paneled pediment marks the location of the center front entrance on the porch. This house has an elaborate front entrance that features an ornately decorated
leaded transom and sidelights. Windows on the house are mostly one over one sash vinyl replacements. The house has pyramidal dormers with paired six over one windows. There are two tall
brick chimneys one of which is very large. The property includes a two bay garage in the rear. 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 house was built in the mid 1890’s
for Robert Williams, supervisor of the Williams Mfg. Co. The Company manufactured baskets and was located on Smith Street in Northampton.” 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.