Williams Street 25.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): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32C-259 Easthampton NTH.2165 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 25Williams Street Historic
Name: Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Two-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.101 acres
Setting: House faces east on a quiet residential street of mid to late 19th century homes. A few shrubs line the foundation of the home.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [25WILLIAMS STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2165 ___ 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 Queen Anne style home with a front gable roof facing the street
and a cross gable roof on the rear, southern elevation, which forms a shallow “T” plan. The house is three bays wide and three bays deep with the last two bays on the northern and southern
elevations of the home extending outwards to form the “T”. The home is clapboard sided and the gable fields are ornamented with decorative shingles. A shed roof porch with turned posts
and turned balusters extends across the full width of the front façade. Decorative shingles on the spandrel match the gable field. Below the porch is a decorative apron. A comparison
of the porch in 2010 to the porch in 1980 shows that the turned posts originally had carved brackets. Above the first floor porch is a smaller second story porch with center gable and
matching turned posts and turned balusters. Windows on the home are a mixture of two over one and one over one sash with flat stock surrounds. The cross gables feature Queen Anne style
multi-paned windows in the gable field. There is a brick chimney along the center ridgeline of the home. Extending from the western elevation of the home is a sizable two-story rear
ell with two-story screened porch on the southern elevation that has turned posts for porch supports. 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 two-family house was constructed
during the period when the remaining Hawley Street estates were being subdivided to provide building lots. The expanding Belding Brothers and Company silk mill on Hawley Street provided
the impetus for rowhousing, two-family houses and worker’s cottages.” 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.