Franklin Street 76.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 24C-142 Easthampton NTH.307 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 76 Franklin Street Historic Name:
William E. Pittsinger House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1870-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: William Pittsinger, Builder, attributed Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: flushboard Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: garage Major
Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.286 acres Setting: This house is east-facing and is located on a raised, corner lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [76 FRANKLIN ST] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. 307 _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 unique house in Northampton being a flushboard-sided, Italianate style house, two stories
in height with a north wing of two stories that is also flushboard-sided. The house has a flat roof, wide eaves overhangs, and a through-cornice chimney on the south elevation. It is
five bays wide and four bays deep and the center entry has a hooded lintel on consoles. Windows have have shed roof lintels on brackets. Sash in the main block is 6/6 and in the wing
it is 1/1. There is one grille at the attic level. 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: “In 1870, William Pittsinger bought 1/3 of an acre on Wachusett St. (an early name for
Franklin Street, changed by 1873) for $300. Mr. Pittsinger was a carpenter and probably built this house himself. It first appears on the 1873 atlas.” 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. 428-P. 268, 275-399
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [76 FRANKLIN ST] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH. 307 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 Pittsinger 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 Pittsinger House is a fine example of the Italianate style.
This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.