Williams Street 55.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-253 Easthampton NTH.2164 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 55Williams Street Historic
Name: Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard and wood shingle Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Small one bay garage with separate entry door Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.172 acres Setting: House faces east on a quiet residential street of late 19th century homes. Shrubbery and plantings surround the home and
mature trees are located in the rear of the lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [55WILLIAMS STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2164 ___ 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 front gable roof facing the street and
a cross, clipped, gabled roof on the 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 front gable field is ornamented with fish scale shingles. A shed roof porch with turned
posts, carved brackets and balustrade extends across the full width of the front façade. A comparison of the porch in 2010 to the porch in 1980 shows that the balusters, which originally
matched the carved brackets, have been replaced. Fish scale shingles on the spandrel match the gable field. Windows on the home are two over two sash with flat stock surrounds. 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 covered porch on the southern elevation.
There is a small one bay garage with front gable garage with double leaf cross buck door and separate pedestrian entry. 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. No history written on Form B of 1980.
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.