Arlington Street 13.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: PVPC Date (month /year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number
USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24C-144 Easthampton NTH.309 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 13 Arlington Street Historic Name: John and Emily Huxley House Uses:
Present: two-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1871-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds and atlas of 1873 Style/Form: no style Architect/Builder: John
Huxley, attributed Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Roof raised, porch
added, house sided and windows replaced as part of conversion to two-family house. Condition: good good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.302 acres Setting: This house rests on
a slightly raised lot, faces south and is shaded by a large oak tree.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [13 ARLINGTON STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.309 ___ 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 house was altered in its conversion to a two-family so that its original appearance is no
longer discernable. It has lost its character and has no remaining stylistic features of significance. It is a vinyl-sided, three-story house with a front-gable roof. A two-story porch
has been added to its façade. There is a two-story wing on the east and perhaps the only remaining historical feature on the exterior, though an addition after construction of the house,
is a Queen Anne style stained glass stair window on the east elevation of the main block. 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. According to a Form B prepared in 1980, “A subdivision plan for Arlington
Street was filed by W. T. Clement in 1871. This new street was to connect Franklin and Massasoit Streets through an S-curve. That same year John Huxley bought lots number 10 and 11 for
$600. Mr. Huxley was a carpenter and probably built this house himself. It first appears on the 1873 atlas and served as Mr. Huxley’s homestead.” In 1880 John and Emily Huxley were living
in Northampton with their children Frank and Alice and Emily’s father Elijah Montague. At that point, John was a junior carpenter, but by 1893 John had become a full-fledged carpenter
and the family was in this house on Arlington Street. In 1895 John began listing himself as a builder/carpenter suggesting that he was investing in properties or building houses for
others and Alice was teaching at the Center Grammar School, while Frank had moved to 19 Arlington Street but worked with his father as a carpenter/builder. 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. Northampton Directory. 1873-74 and 1895-96. Registry of Deeds. Book 280, Page 283; Book 284, Page 271.