Chapel Street 39.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):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38A-8 Easthampton NTH.2177 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 39 Chapel Street Historic Name: Mina
and Idea Mann House Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1860 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Greek Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: metal shingles and asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): House extended
two bays on rear, ca. 1900; ell added after 1900. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.516 acres Setting: This house is screened from Chapel Street by a dense row
of shrubbery. It is a corner lot in a neighborhood of small one-and-a-half story farmhouses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [39 Chapel Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2177 ___ 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. The Mann sisters’ house is a one-and-a-half story Greek Revival style house under a front-gable
roof. Rather than the common width of three bays, this house is a more ample four bays wide and six bays deep. The house has a two bay addition on the north and a one-story ell on the
rear for a long rectangular plan. The entry door surround on the south has Greek Revival pilasters supporting an entablature that has been partially covered by the addition of a porch,
but within the surround is a two-light transom. The house’s cornerboards and frieze are wide in Greek Revival fashion, and windows have drip edge lintels with 6/6 window sash that was
common during the Greek Revival style period. The main block of the house has metal shingle roofing material, the ell has asphalt. This is a well-maintained building that is representative
of much of the architecture of Northampton in the mid-19th century. 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, “In 1860 Mina and Idea Mann, daughters of Asenath and Henry Mann,
purchased a half acre of land bounded southerly by Westhampton Road (now Chapel St.) and northerly by Burts Pit Road. Laurel Street, the current easterly bound is not mentioned in this
deed. Mr. Mann was a farmer and the property remained in the family into the early 20th century. This area was known as ‘Pancake Plain’ and during the mid-19th century was developed
into a small community. After the Northampton State Hospital was sited near here in the mid-1850s the area became known as Hospital Hill.” 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. Registry of Deeds: Book 198, page 75; Book 196 Page 47; Book 108 page 126; Book 107 page 21.