Elm Street 292.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 31A-80 Easthampton NTH.485 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 292 Elm Street Historic Name: Samuel
E. Thompson House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1889-90 Source: Deeds & street map Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows replaced ca.
1990. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.199 acres Setting: The house occupies a corner lot in a neighborhood of late 19th early 20th century homes. This house is
surrounded by a picket fence.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [292 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.485 ___ 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. The Thompson house is a Queen Anne style house that has been covered with vinyl siding so that
many of its stylistic details have been lost or obscured. Remaining is its Queen Anne form of a two-and-a-half story, front-gabled house. It has cross gables on east and west and a three-sided
bay of two stories adjacent to a stacked, two-story porch with a front-gabled roof on the north facade. Sash in the house is replacement 1/1. Two tall chimneys rise from the roof. 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 1977: “Land in this are was surveyed and divided into lots in 1887 by Hammond and Sullivan, who opened Forbes Avenue from Elm at this date. S.E. Thompson
bought lot 10 in 1889 and built his house soon after.” 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: 1761/3 1974,
1277/334 1958, 961/209 1941, 957/401 1941, 896/146 1934, 805/98 1924, 796/505 1923, 484/445 1896, 428/362 1889