Front Street 58.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-44 Easthampton NTH.39 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 58 Front Street Historic Name: Edson
Ross House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1872-1873 Source: Atlas & Directory Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick, concrete block Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Barn Major Alterations (with dates): Rear ells added and porch
enclosed, ca. 1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.583 acres Setting: Setting: This house faces south on the crest of a hill.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [58 FRONT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.39 ___ 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 two-and-a-half story Italianate style house under a side-gable roof with a prominent
front-gable bay centered on its south façade. It is five bays wide and one bay deep and the front-gable bay has at its first story a rectangular bay window under a shallow hipped roof.
Originally the house had open porches at each side of the cross-gable bay, but the porch on the west has been enclosed. The porch on the east remains partially open, supported on a single
post. Windows in the house have pedimented surrounds and there are Italianate paired brackets at the wide eaves. On the cross-gable windows have 2/2 sash and at the second floor they
have been paired, a practice common in the Italianate style. The windows of the rectangular bay are nearly full-length, another Italianate style feature. 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: “Front Street was laid out in the early 19th century as a connector between Haydenville Road and the recently settle village of Sheperd’s Hollow. The village acquired
its name from the three Sheperds—James, Thomas, and Charles—who owned and operated the two woolen mills. In 1831, the Northampton Woolen Manufacturing Co. acquired the mill and attendant
property and ran a a successful business until 1857. The firm failed at that time and the business abandoned. Nonotuck Silk Co. began operation on part of the site in 1859. They also
acquired land on the upper slopes northeast of the village at the same time. E.S. Ross bought an 81 square rod lot on this street in 1872. By the next year his residence is shown on
the County Atlas. Mr. Ross is listed as a merchant of groceries and dry goods in the 1873-74 Directory, and is located near the Depot, in what has always been the only commercial building
in the village. The Post Office was also located here, and Mr. Ross was appointed Postmaster in 1874. Around the turn of the century, it appears that Ross moved his business to his home
at 58 Front Street.” 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. 298-109