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South Street 218.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-211 Easthampton NTH.1066 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 218 South Street Historic Name: Elizabeth Kingsley House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1905 Source: Atlas and visual evidence Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Removal of interior chimney (1980-2011) Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.351 acre Setting: 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] [218 SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.1066 _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 Colonial Revival style home with a truncated hip roof. The home has a two-and-a-half story entry pavilion at its center with a gabled roof and Palladian style window with drip edge lintel at the half-story level. A hipped roof front porch extends across the full width of the front façade. The porch has a solid frieze, spindle balustrade, and Tuscan columns that rest on brick bases and are in pairs or triples. The tri-part front entry door has leaded sidelights and a glass and panel door. Windows on the house are six over one sash and have flat stock surrounds with drip mold lintels. A tri-part window on the northern elevation marks the location of the stairway. The house is clapboard sided and it has a wide frieze beneath the overhanging roof eaves. The home has a brick exterior chimney on its southern end. There was originally a second brick interior chimney on the northern slope of the roof, but this was removed at some point after the home was first inventoried in 1980. 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 was built early in the 20th century for Miss Elizabeth Kingsley. Miss Kingsley formerly had been principal of the Center Street School in Northampton, but seems to have retired by 1915.” 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.