Florence Street 71.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 11C-40 Easthampton NTH.43 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 71 Florence Street Historic Name: John
Tunnicliff House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1867-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | | yes
| | Date Acreage: 2.4 acres Setting: This house is in a residential neighborhood with an elementary school on the opposite side of the street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [71 FLORENCE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.43 ___ 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 an exceptional example of the Gothic Revival style. It is a one-and-a-half story house
with a steeply-pitched, front-gable roof that has paired brackets at its wide eaves. It has cross-gables on east and west and a one-and-a-half story ell on the south with a side porch.
The house is flushboard sided on the first story and clapboard-sided on the second story, and is preceded on the north by a porch that wraps from north to east and west. The porch is
supported on slender posts that have Gothic braces at the eaves. The north façade is three bays wide with a side hall entry whose architrave surround is a Gothic three-point arch flanked
by arched sidelights. At the second story windows have unique lintels that are concave pediments that end in sharp peaks. At the attic level is a rondel window. On the east elevation
an angled bay window is at first story level on the cross gable, and there is a two-story ell on the south. 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: “John Tunnicliff bought 3 1/3 acres
on the south side of Florence Street in 1867. Mr. Tunnicliff was employed at the Critchlow Ivory Button Co., later known as the Mill River Button Company, in Leeds Village. The present
house was constructed before 1873, and after John’s death, it was lived in by William Tunnicliff, a machinist employed first at the Crichlow Co., and later at Northampton Emory Wheel
Co. 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. 243-P.400