Cherry Street 56.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 32A-31 Easthampton NTH.2015 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 56 Cherry Street Historic Name: Uses:
Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1884 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: no style Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Sided with vinyl, windows replaced and porch altered ca.
2000. Condition: good Moved: no | | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.104 acres Setting: This house is on a short residential street in a neighborhood of mainly 19th century buildings.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [56 Cherry Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2015 ___ 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. Since it was first surveyed in 1980 this house has lost most of its character beneath a layer of
vinyl siding and vinyl windows. Previously a Stick Style house it now has only its jerkin head roof to identify its stylistic origins. The house is two-and-a-half stories in height under
a front-gable roof. It has transverse gables on east and west, both of which have jerkin head roofs. The porch has been altered so that square posts replace chamfered Italianate posts
and the ornamental railing has been replaced by a conventional railing that requires no mortise and tenon work. 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. Cherry and Union Streets were laid out during
the 1820s through several 18th century homesteads on Market Street. The early homesteads had extended from Market Street easterly to the burying ground and both of these streets did
likewise. The 1831 map shows four houses on Cherry Street, but by 1860 there were fourteen houses, one of which was on this lot, but its owner unnamed. This house seems first to appear
in 1884 as a house on the estate of J. Herbert. In 1895 it was owned by D. Sullivan. 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.