Barrett Place 32.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 31B-172 Easthampton NTH.654 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 32 Barrett Place Historic Name: Benjamin Barrett Hinckley House
Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1905-1915 Source: Directory and atlas Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes
| | Date Acreage: 0.237 acres Setting: North-facing, this house is at the end of a short, dead-end residential street that is shaded by mature trees.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [32 BARRETT PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.654 _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. Probably the grandest of the houses on Barrett Place, the Benjamin Barrett Hinckley House is a
20th century Colonial Revival interpretation of his parents’ Georgian house, which is close by and known as The Manse. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a side-gambrel roof with
two interior chimneys. It is five bays wide and a generous three bays deep, and there are three shed roof dormers arranged on the north side of its gambrel roof. Like its neighbor at
7 Barrett Place the house has porches on both its east and west elevations supported on Doric columns, although the west porch in this house is partially enclosed. The center entry has
a barrel vaulted portico on paired Doric columns with respondent pilasters framing the doorway. Above the door is a gold-painted carved shell, repeating the motif and use of a barrel
vault of 4 Barrett Place. Windows have 9/1 sash and crown molding lintels. Sidelights flanking the entry have curved, geometric muntins in a pattern that was common during the late Federal
Period. 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 the 1980 Form B: “Barrett Place was laid out in 1910 through a portion of the H. R. Hinckley Estate on Prospect Street (known as ‘The Manse’). Benjamin
Barrett Hinckley was a son of H. R. Hinckley and had this house built by 1915 when it appears on the atlas. Benjamin was clerk of the Northampton Cutlery Company and later became manager
of the International Silver Company in Florence.” 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] [32 BARRETT PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.654 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 house would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor, Elm
Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few gentlemen’s
farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years to the present.
This house has particular significance as it was built for Benjamin Barrett Hinckley whose family had the nearby gentleman’s farm/estate known as “The Manse” and this house was part
of the later development of the district so both eras are represented. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of late 19th century and early 20th
century styles from the late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne styles to the early 20th century Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival style houses that were often architect-designed
by the region’s most well-known designers. As a fine Colonial Revival style house, the Hinckley House contributes to the district’s significance This potential historic district has
integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.