South Street 202.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-186 Easthampton NTH.1063 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 202 South Street Historic
Name: Edwin C. Clapp House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: c. 1860 Source: Maps and visual evidence Style/Form: Late Gothic
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Brick Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Front porch added, early
20th century. Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.468 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] [202 SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1063 _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 late Gothic Revival style home with front gable roof. Characteristic
of the Gothic Revival style, the home has multiple wall gables on its northern and southern elevations. The overhanging eaves with paired brackets, front porch, segmentally arched windows,
and the one story bay on the southern elevation are features of the up-and-coming Italianate style. The front porch has been altered at least two times in this building’s history. Form
B from 1979/1980 shows a full width Colonial Revival style porch with Tuscan columns that wrapped around to the side wing on the northern elevation. Form B also noted that this porch
was added in the early 20th century. The current porch was added some time after 1980. This porch exhibits Italianate style features with its low-pitched hipped roof, square posts and,
solid frieze, and this porch may have closely resembled the original porch. Windows on the home mostly have two over two sashes and stone stills. There is a brick chimney on the center
ridge of the roof of the main block of the house. There is a two story rear ell with back porch and barn in connected-farm plan. 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 1979 and 1980:
“This house is almost identical I form to the one next south of it on South Street, although this one was built of brick and the other of wood. They originally were the homesteads of
two brothers, Marin and Edwin C. Clapp, who were farmers and owned and cultivated large tracts of the best meadow land. In addition, they bought and sold horses and established a large
horse market. Edwin served on the Northampton Common Council and was president of Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden County Agricultural Society.” 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. 180-P. 227