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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 31A-25 Easthampton NTH. 459 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 46 Franklin Street Historic Name:
Frank L. Huxley House Uses: Present: Two-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1907 Source: Directory Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Frank
L. Huxley, Builder, attributed Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Wing
addition, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.776 acres Setting: this house faces east and its lot slopes down to the west.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [46 FRANKLIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.459 _x__ 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 large, two-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof that is imposing as much for
its scale as for its Colonial Revival stylistic features. It has a three-bay façade with an off-center entrance and asymmetrically-placed fenestration. A pedimented portico on paired
slender columns shelters the entry, and to it is attached a gazebo porch also supported on columns. There is a cross-gable bay on the south elevation of the house. Its angled, second-story
bay has carved consoles at frieze level. Rising to the frieze are fluted corner pilasters. A one-story wing was added to the south elevation. 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: “This large house was built in 1907 for Frank Huxley. Mr. Huxley was a carpenter and probably built this house himself. He learned his trade from his father, John Huxley, and spent
about 25 years in the contracting business. He operated a large woodworking shop in the rear of the house.” 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [46 FRANKLIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.459 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Huxley House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor,
Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few
gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years
to the present. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival
and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Huxley House is a good example of the Colonial Revival
style. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.