Bancroft Road 93.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):
April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24D-314-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 93 Bancroft Road Historic Name: Edward
and Anna Finn House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1925 Source: Street Directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: concrete Wall/Trim: wood shingles Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no |x | yes
| | Date Acreage: 0.262 acres Setting: This house is placed on a steep lot high above the level of Bancroft Road. It is reached by stairs at the east and west sides of the house.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [93 Bancroft Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. _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 house that has a side-gable roof. It is late Colonial Revival in style and
is modest in size and details. It is three bays wide and two bays deep and its basement is exposed on the north elevation where the land slopes away. On that elevation at basement level
is an attached garage. It is an integral part of the house and reflects people’s commitment to owning a car and their interest in having their cars handy to the house. The Colonial Revival
house has clipped gable eaves and shallow front eaves. Its center entry is through a barrel-vaulted portico on posts with lattice sides. This is a feature that was popular during the
1920s and 30s. 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. This house appears to have been built by Edward and Anna Finn who owned the E & J. Cigar Company on Main Street in Northampton. The appear in the directory
of 1930 but there was no house of this address in 1920. The Finns were here through 1940 when their son Edward, Jr. lived nearby at 2 Bancroft Road and was a part of the business. The
E. & J. Cigar Company expanded from selling tobacco and candy to a wholesale tobacco company that was incorporated and sold through vending machines by 1950. Edward Finn was president
of the company and his son was its Vice President. Company offices were at 15 Conz Street. 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [93 Bancroft Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH. National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons The criteria that are checked
in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a potential Round Hill Historic District. This potential historic district is significant according to
criteria A and C and would have local significance. The residential streets that cross Round Hill are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of development in Northampton
from the early 19th century (1807) through the 1950s. Residential development began on Round Hill with the establishment of gentleman’s estates but grew with schools and a resort hotel
until the 1890s when residential development increased significantly. From the 1890s through the 1950s (1959 McAlister Infirmary) Round Hill became home to Northampton’s wealthy and
to the Clarke School for the Deaf. Architecturally this area of Northampton is significant for the range of residential architectural styles including the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival,
and for its institutional buildings in the French Second Empire, through High Victorian Gothic and Colonial Revival styles ending with the American International style. The potential
district has integrity of workmanship, design, feeling, association, and materials.