Corticelli Street 11.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 22B-29 Easthampton NTH.147 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 11 Corticelli Street Historic Name:
Mrs. Hawkes House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1860-1873 Source: Map and Atlas Style/Form: Italianate with Queen Anne
Porch Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Shed Major Alterations (with dates): Wing
added, ca. 1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.325 acre Setting: This house house faces west in a neighborhood of single-family homes from the 19th century.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [11 CORTICELLI STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.147 _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 one-and-a-half story, front-gable house that is three bays wide and four bays deep and
is almost identical to the house at 25 Corticelli Street. The asphalt shingled roof has thinly boxed eaves that make no returns, a feature of houses built in the early 1870s, many of
which are Italianate in style. Sash in the house is 2/2 and it has a center stove chimney. Across the west façade is a Queen Anne style porch on turned posts with brackets at the eaves.
This porch is of later date than the house suggesting it was an addition or replacement. There is a one-story, shed-roofed wing on the south elevation added in the 20th century. This
house is well-maintained and represents the high level of workers’ housing built in Florence in the 1870s, being modest, but constructed to last. 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 Form B of
1980: “In 1859, Isaac Parsons et al. filed a subdivision plan for part of Park Street, and Meadow and Prospect Streets. Prospect Street was located atop the eastern terrace of the Mill
River and had a fine view westward across the Florence Meadows. By 1873, the street had been mostly built up with cottages for the workers of the Florence Mfg. Co. or the Nonotuck Silk
Mills, both nearby on the Mill River.” 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: Bk. 188-P. 398 and 399, 202-89 and
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INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [11 CORTICELLI STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.147 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, the Corticelli Street Historic District. Historically, this
street of houses was constructed to serve the workers of Florence in the Silk Mills, the Florence Sewing Machine Company, and the Florence Manufacturing Company. A narrative of their
occupants is a narrative of immigrants, laborers and their families that made up the 19th and 20th century history of Florence. Architecturally, this house is significant as a fine example
of the quality of workers’ housing in Florence and of the housing built by workers themselves in the latest styles with plenty of decorative features. Between 1860 and 1884 the Gothic
Revival, Italianate and Queen Anne styles were applied to virtually the same form building. The district has integrity of workmanship, materials, feeling, setting and design.