Florence Road 949.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 44-63 Easthampton NTH.1103 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 949 Florence Road Historic Name: Uses:
Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: early 20th century Source: visual evidence Style/Form: Bungalow Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: fieldstone Wall/Trim: pressed concrete block, vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced ca. 2000 Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.341 acres Setting: This is an east-facing house on a busy roadway. It is set back from the street on an open lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [949 FLORENCE RD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1103 ___ 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 a Craftsman bungalow. It is one-and-a-half stories in height under a
side-gable roof with a centered dormer. The roof extends on the west to create a porch whose roof rests on fieldstone piers. Following the Craftsman purpose of creating the look of hand-crafted
architecture from local materials, this house has fieldstone foundations and walls of pressed concrete that was often made with a hand-operated press. In the gable ends the house is
now vinyl-sided, but would originally have had wood shingles or clapboards. It is three bays wide and four bays deep and there is a fine fieldstone foundation on the south exterior wall.
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. 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.