Hancock Street 18.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):
April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-219-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 18 Hancock Street Historic Name:
Jonas M. and Hattie (Elizabeth) Clark House Uses: Present: Two-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1880 Source: 1880 census Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added, porch stacked,
windows replaced, 1920-2005. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.121 acres Setting: This house faces south on a quiet, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [18 Hancock Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. ___ 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 Queen Anne style house, two-and-a-half stories in height and gable-and-wing in plan. The gable section of
the house is one bay wide and has an angled bay window at the first story. The wing on the east is also two-and-a-half stories in height and has a jerkin head roof. In the angle between
the two sections is a three-story tower under a pyramidal hipped roof. A porch on posts with brackets at the eaves wraps around the tower. It was given a second story, probably at the
time the house was converted from a one-family to a two-family house. There is a two-story ell on the north elevation of the house and it has a side porch that rests on posts. Windows
in the house have been replaced with vinyl 1/1 sash. 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 Hawley Street homestead,
but lots were only available on the northern side of the street. “ This house first appears on the map of 1884 as J. M. Clark and the census of 1880 places Jonas and Hattie Clark on
the street. Jonas was Superintendent of the Northampton Water Works and he and Hattie lived here with their daughter Abby. Jonas died in 1893. The house on the map of 1895 is listed
as owned by Mrs. E. E. Clark, presumably Hattie was a nickname for Elizabeth. Elizabeth Clark disappears from the directories after 1895. By 1915 the house had been divided into a two-family
and was occupied by Mrs. Nellie Cushing and Hans and Mary Goldstaub. Goldstaub was employed at the Belding Hemenway silk manufactory. In 1935 the house was owned by Rudolph and Mary
Arel. Rudolph was a sign painter. The Arels shared it with Mrs. Sybyl Mariz who was a widow of Herbert Mariz. 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.