Evergreen Road Dimock Reservoir_demo.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 This building no longer exists. In its place is a house. 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-1 Easthampton NTH.28 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or
village) Address: North side of Evergreen Road Historic Name: Dimock Reservoir Uses: Present: demolished Original: reservoir structure Date of Construction: 1873-1877 Source: Atlas and
Water Department Style/Form: Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Wall/Trim: Roof: Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Moved: no
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INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [EVERGREEN ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.28 ___ 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. 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: “The ‘reservoir’ first appears on the 1884 Atlas.
The Nonotuck Silk Co. is listed as the owner, and piping laid under High Street (now Evergreen Road), Center Street (now Upland Road), Front Street, Grove Avenue, and Chestnut Avenue
connect the reservoir to at least one house on the hill, the two Grove Hill houses, the Main Street mill of Nonotuck Silk Co., the mill of the Northampton Emory Wheel Co, and then finally
to the Mill River. Notes in the margin of a map of city waterlines in the area date the piping to 1877, and list the source as a spring (probably just west of Dimock Street). By 1913
the City of Northampton had acquired this waterworks system from the Nonotuck Silk Co. In that year, they proposed to build a standpipe to replace the old reservoir, to better serve
the approximately fifty families who were supplied at that time by the old system.” 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.