Finn Street 46.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-176 Easthampton NTH.334 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 46 Finn Street Historic Name: Varnum
Tanner House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1852-1854 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Sided ca. 1990 Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.209 acres Setting: House sits on a corner lot on a busy street of a residential area.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [46 FINN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.334 ___ 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 Gothic Revival style was popular in Northampton and appeared in both brick and frame examples.
This is a one-and-a-half story frame version with a steeply-pitched front-gable roof with shallow cross-gables on both east and west. The house has a one-story rear ell on the south.
Vinyl siding now covers all but one section of the house, the first floor of the north façade that has retained its board-and-batten Gothic Revival siding. There, as well, are the Gothic
full-length first floor windows. Windows and the side-hall entry have label lintel surrounds, thought they have been mostly covered by added shutters. In the cross-gables and the front-gable
are pointed Gothic windows and elsewhere on the main block of the house windows are narrow and paired as was typical of the style. 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: “Spring Street
(originally called Hawley Lane) was laid out in the first third of the 19th century as the upper connector between King Street and Prospect Street. In 1852 and 1854, Joseph Haskins,
a Prospect Street resident, sold land to Varnum Tanner for a combined total of $383. In October of 1854, Mr. Tanner sold this land to Hatfil Washburn, Jr. of Williamsburg for $1350.
The deed deed mentions the grantor’s ‘new Cottage house thereon standing.’ This would seem to be the same house as the present one.” 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: Bk. 447-P. 429, 414-407 and 403, 410-311, 157-114 and 116, 145-224