Edwards Square 15.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 31B-118 Easthampton NTH.623 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 15 Edwards Square Historic Name: Louis
Young House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1898-1915 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Chester White, builder, attr. Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.07 acres Setting: House is set on a side street that is built up of mainly 19th century houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [15 EDWARDS SQUARE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.623 ___ 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 fine example of the Queen Anne style houses that Chester White built during the late
19th century in Northampton. The attribution to White is made from the common and idiosyncratic elements with which he designed his houses. The house is two-and-a-half storied under
a front-gable roof. It has a corner tower with a pyramidal spire. On the roof of the spire are characteristic Chester White triangular dormers that are entirely glazed, and beneath the
cornice of the square tower is a row of closely spaced brackets that are also characteristic of White’s work. The main block of the building is two bays wide with a large, fixed-light
window that White used at the houses he is documented as building at 222 and 149 Bridge Street, among others. The house has a hipped roof porch across the west façade and it rests on
fluted posts with a row of closely spaced brackets at the eaves. There is a Queen Anne window in the tower with multiple light panes and there is a three-sided bay window on the south
elevation. The main roof eaves are ornamented with barge boards decorated with a diamond pattern. 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: “During the 1890’s, Charles Stevens bought
the Whitney estate on on King Street. In 1898, he filed a subdivision plan for Edwards Square. The short, L-shaped street was named after Jonathan Edwards, the famous Northampton theologian
of the mid-18th century, who maintained a homestead on King St. on this site. During the early 20th century Louis Young, a Main street barber, is listed as living here.” 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.