Cherry Street 9.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 Please see attached 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-045 Easthampton NTH.2018 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 9
Cherry Street Historic Name: William Pratt Cottage Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1845-1860 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette; Registry
of Deeds Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt, architect Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary
Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Porch enclosed after 1975; siding added after 1975; several windows replaced in wing, before 1975. Condition: fair Moved: no | x |
yes | | Date Acreage: 0.115 acres Setting: House faces sideways on its narrow lot as does at least one other house on the street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [9 Cherry Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2018 ___ 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 well-detailed Gothic Revival house whose stylistic features have been obscured by the
enclosure of an open porch, application of siding, and lack of on-going maintenance. It is a one-and-a-half story house under a side-gable roof, but with its gable end to the street.
It has a steeply pitched roof with a small center chimney. The house is one room deep and appears to be five bays wide, but the porch covers its façade. There is a one-and-a-half story
wing on the south that is two bays long, but both windows are replacements and may not be in their original bays. On the roof of the main block of the house and its wing are two front-gabled
dormers with paired, Gothic Revival style lancet windows. The north elevation of the house has on the first floor two full-length, French windows of eight fixed lights on each leaf.
On the second floor are double lancet windows whose surrounds do not remain intact. The east elevation of the house has a three-sided bay window with Gothic drip mold lintels over is
openings. Two double lancet dormers are on the east side of the roof of the main block and a single dormer on the wing. 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 1975 Form B, “This Gothic cottage
was built by local architect Wm. F. Pratt ca. 1850 and remodeled by him in 1860. The cottage, the architect’s residence 1845-1861, is far more modest than the cottage designs which he
executed for local residents during the period 1845-1860. It is possible that prior to renovation in 1860 the structure exhibited few of the characteristics of Gothic Revival cottage
style, for the Gazette referred to the house as a “dwelling house” in 1860 and as a “cottage” only after renovation and sale of the residence to G. L. Shaw, for $1,700 in 1861. It is
worth noting that Pratt held numerous mortgages on the property, and that his later residence on North Street was sold at auction in April 1879 following Pratt’s declaration of bankruptcy.
The practice of architecture in Northampton was not particularly lucrative.” 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,
Hampshire County, Book 199 page 362; Book 110 page 201. Daily Hampshire Gazette, August 7, 1860; April 2, 1861; April 8, 1879.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [9 Cherry Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2018