Front Street 50-52.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 11A-45 Easthampton NTH.40 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Leeds Address: 50-52 Front Street Historic Name:
Nonotuck Silk Company House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Two-family residence Date of Construction: ca.1860 Source: atlas of 1860 Style/Form: Side-gable Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible and concrete block Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): siding added, windows replaced,
chimney added to end wall, ca. 1970-1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.479 acres Setting: This is a south-facing house on a rise in the landscape. It is in
a neighborhood of one-and two-family houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [50-52 FRONT ST] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.40 ___ 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 Nonotuck Silk Company two-family house is two stories in height under a slate-covered, side-gable
roof. Like many mill houses, it is modest in design. It is six bays wide and three bays deep and has a one story ell on the north. On the south façade entries to the units are in the
center and side-by-side. Windows in the house have been replaced with vinyl 6/6 sash and the house has been vinyl sided so that many of its stylistic details have been obscured such
as the door and window surrounds. It has two interior chimneys at the ridge. The south façade has a shed roof, full-width porch that rests on posts with scroll-cut brackets at the eaves,
a Queen Anne style porch that would have been a later addition if the house were constructed about 1860. 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 double house was probably
built as a tenement house for the Nonotuck Silk Co. In 1862, Benjamin North sold his Main and Mulberry Streets Store to the Company, and it was at this time that he probably also sold
his property up on the hill on Front Street. The 1860 Map shows two houses owned by the North family and it’s possible that this is the one owned by Mrs. O. North.” 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. 298-P. 109