Finn Street 13.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 24D-141 Easthampton NTH.324 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 13 Finn Street Historic Name: Alexander
Hill House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884 Source: Atlas & Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder:
Bailey and Brown, builders Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Porch enclosed
ca. 1960. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.114 acres Setting: This house is set near a major commercial thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [13 FINN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.324 ___ 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 Hill House is one of the Gothic Revival style masonry houses in Northampton that served as
a fine demonstration of the brickwork produced by its builders, Bailey and Brown. It is a one-and-a-half story, red brick house that is gable-and-wing in form. Its roof is steeply pitched
in the Gothic manner and in the field of the front gable is a Gothic lancet window above a square attached bay window. But what is outstanding about this small house is the level of
detail of its brickwork. Beneath first floor windows are brick checkerboard panels, while angled bricks mark two beltcourses between stories. Decoratively laid bricks form the window
lintels and tarred bricks encircle the house at the beltcourses, window lintels and watertable. Segmentally arched windows have wood frames with scroll-cut designs at their headers.
Sash in the house is wood 2/2 and 1/1. In the angle of the two sections of the house is a corner porch that unfortunately has been closed in with brick. There are a number of Gothic
Revival brick houses in Northampton and this one was originally almost identical to the house at 10 Allen Place. It is representative of the Gothic Revival style and the level of masonry
craftsmanship that was practiced in Northampton. 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: “Alexander Hill bought slightly more than a half acre on the north side of Spring Street
(now known as Finn Street) from the heirs of Jonathan Baker in early 1884. The house must have been built immediately, as it is shown on the 1884 atlas. Mr. Hill worked as a teamster
for Brown and Bailey, the masons and builders located on Allen Place.” 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.