Spring Street 240.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: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 16C-016-001 Easthampton NTH.2549 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 240 Spring Street Historic
Name: Emile and Amy Cave House Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1870 Source: Howes Brothers Photograph of 1886 Style/Form: gable
and wing form Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: metal Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: barn, garage Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows replaced ca. 2000 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 2.0 acres Setting: This house is set on a rise in the landscape behind a stone embankment on a busy street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [240 SPRING STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2549 ___ 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 one-and-a-half story, south-facing house that is gable and wing in form. The gable section
has a front-gable roof and is one bay wide and two bays deep. The west wing is one-and-a-half stories in height and two bays long. The entry in the gable section of the house has a lattice-sided
portico with a small hipped roof. The metal roof of the house has relatively wide eaves overhang and is thinly boxed. Trim on the house is simple with flat stock window and door surrounds.
Windows are replacement 6/1. Although this house is relatively simple in plan and elevation it is a good example of the vernacular architecture of rural 19th century Florence and it
retains its barn as well as garage. A Howes Brothers photograph of this house indicates that ca. 1886 there was an off-center door on the east or street side of the house. 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. Although Spring Street appears on Northampton maps as early as 1831, it was so sparsely populated that subsequent atlases did not include the area through 1895, and the
Sanborn Insurance Maps do not include the street, due to its rural nature, through 1930. The earliest documentation of the house is a Howes Brothers photograph taken in 1886 and then
there is a gap in ownership records until 1912 when Mary Grant sold the property to Ulderich Dubois who lived nearby on Spring Street. Mary and Robert Grant did not live on the property,
however, so must have used the property for a rental. Between 1912 and 1922 there is a gap in the ownership but by 1922 the property’s owners according to the street directory of that
year were Emile and Amy Cave. At that time the address of the house was 198 Spring Street and it retained this address through 1983. Emile was the child of French immigrants and the
Caves had come to Northampton between 1920 and 1922, as the federal census of 1920 places them in Vermont where Amy had been born. Emile was working in Vermont as a checker on the railroad
and then in Northampton worked as an automobile mechanic in 1930. The Caves had three children Lawrence, Emile, and Morris. The Cave family remained in the house through 1960 although
Emile had died by 1950 and Amy remained to work the land. Amy had deeded the property to Lawrence and and Morris before 1960, however. 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. U.S. Federal Censuses 1900-1930. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston,
1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.