East Center Street 32.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 11A-18 Easthampton NTH.31 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Leeds Address: 32 East Center Street Historic
Name: George P. Warner House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1873-84 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x
| yes | | Date Acreage: 0.483 acres Setting: This house is set on a hill on a raised lot in a mixed neighborhood of 19th and 20th century houses. It has a rural village aspect.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [32 EAST CENTER STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.31 ___ 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 striking house both for its placement in the landscape and for its state of preservation
as a vernacular Italianate house. It is a gable-and-wing house with a two-and-a-half story front-gable section and a one-and-a-half story wing. The gable section is three bays wide and
contains the main entry to the house. The entry has a trabeated surround to which was added a pediment, probably at the turn of the century. It has half-length sidelights. There is an
arched Italianate window in the gable field and windows have modest hooded lintels on brackets. The wing is crossed by a full-width porch on Italianate posts on high pedestals and there
are ornamental trusses at the eaves. The wing is 4 bays long and its windows and a secondary entry also have hooded lintels. 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: “This is
one of the early houses built on East Center Street during the 70’s or 80’s. The street was part of the subdivision developed by Nonotuck Silk Co. in the 1870’s. The company, which had
a large factory in the village of Leeds on the banks of the Mill River, sold residential lots or built houses to be leased to its employees. The owners of the two other industries in
the village, Northampton Emory Wheel Co. and the Mill River Button Co., also bought lots to build houses on. This house is shown on the 1884 Atlas as belonging to George P. Warner, president
of the Mill River Button Co. By 1895 ownership had changed to Alfred Addis, an employee of Nonotuck Silk Co.” 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.