Hancock Street 14.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-217 Easthampton NTH.2102 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 14 Hancock Street Historic
Name: Jonas M. Clark House Uses: Present: Single family residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: 1873-75 Source: Atlas and Directory Style/Form: Italianate style
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Side porch (early 20th century)
Dormer (late 20th century) Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.20 acres Setting: House faces south onto a quiet residential street. House located in a residential
neighborhood of mid to late 19th century homes. Shrubs and plantings line the foundation of the home. Mature trees are located throughout the property.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [14 HANCOCK STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2102 __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 two-and-a-half story Italianate style home with front gable roof. The principal block
of the house is three bays wide and three bays deep. The house is clapboard sided and has a slate roof. Roof eaves make partial returns and beneath is an average frieze. An arched Italianate
style window with peaked lintel decorates the gable field. There is a multi-sided bay with a flat roof on the western elevation. The front entry is marked by a pedimented Colonial Revival
style portico with Tuscan columns, which was likely a turn of the century alteration to the home. The house’s windows are two over two sash and have projecting lintels. There is a two
story addition rear ell and one-story enclose porch on the western elevation of the home. Since the home was first inventoried in 1980, a dormer has been added to western slope of the
roof. The house has at least one brick chimney which is located on the western slope of the roof. 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: “Hancock Street was opened in 1873 across
Ebenezar Hancock’s former Hawley Street estate. The estate had been bought by James Arms, a co-owner of Arms and Bardwell Manufacturing Company, which was located on the west side of
Hawley Street near Holyoke Street and produced hoop skirts, pocketbooks and diaries. Lots were only available on the north side of the street as that was all that Mr. Arms owned. By
1875, this house had been built, and was occupied by Jonas M. Clark, superintendent of Northampton Water Works.” Arnold Levinson owned the house in 2010. 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. 306-P. 111