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Butler Place 30.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 32A-207-001 Easthampton NTH.2466 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 30 Butler Place Historic Name: Andrew T. and Persis Sawin House Uses: Present: Five-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1895 Source: Map of 1895 Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: wood shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added, windows replaced, ca. 1980-2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.298 acres Setting: This house faces south on a short, residential street of 19th-early 20th c. houses. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [30 Butler Place] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2466 _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 large, Queen Anne style house that appears to have expanded considerably since the time of its construction. The main block of the house is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof. It has a cross-gabled wing on the east that is also two-and-a-half stories and in the angle formed by the two sections of the house is a three-story tower under a pyramidal hipped roof. There is a cross-gable bay on the west, a two-and-a-half story ell on the north elevation, and these four sections would have made up the original house. Added is a two-story ell on the north, a shed roofed wing on the east, a shed roofed room attached to the tower at the second story, and a former porch that wrapped around the tower has been enclosed to create yet another room. Now sided in wood shingles, the house would originally have had a combination of shingles and clapboards but remaining is the jetty between stories. Queen Anne in style is the south façade oriel window with fixed diamond panes. While it has increased in size the house retains its Queen Anne form. 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. In 1892 Sarah Butler, who lived on Pomeroy Terrace had a plan drawn up to put a road through her property, which extended extended between Pomeroy Terrace and Hawley Street. The plan called for fourteen lots to be laid out on two sides of the new “Butler Place”. This house was among the early houses to be built, being in place by the time the map of 1895 was drawn. Sarah M. Butler was the daughter of J. H. and Sarah Butler who was a member of the First Congregational Church. The family seems to have arrived in Northampton between 1870 and 1873 as J. H. Butler appears on the map of that year on this location on Pomeroy Terrace. In 1880 56-year-old Sarah Butler had become a widow and her daughter Sarah M. was 26. Within a few years Sarah M. Butler had inherited the property, established Butler Place and at about the same time became Active in Northampton town government. Directories from the years between 1893 and 1908 indicate she was a trustee at Northampton Lunatic Hospital and was listed as its Secretary in 1892. She was on the Board of Almoners for Northampton between 1902 and 1908. The Sawins, Andrew and Persis, who were the first owners of the house moved here from elsewhere in Northampton where they and their daughter had taken in boarders. Andrew worked on the Boston and Maine Railroad where he was a ticket clerk and agent through 1900 but had retired by 1908. The family was in the house through 1910, no longer appears in the 1920 census. 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] [30 Butler Place] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2466 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. The Sawin House would contribute to a potential Pomeroy Terrace historic district that developed south and east of the Bridge Street Cemetery from the second third of the 19th century as Northampton’s finest residential district. Original residents here were merchants, retired farmers, lawyers, and other professions. As the century progressed the adjacent streets were laid out for the growing middle class with railroad personnel joining clerks, teachers, and others. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the fine examples of the 19th century architectural styles from the Greek and Gothic Revivals, Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. The district includes significant examples of the work of Northampton architect William Fenno Pratt. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.