Hatfield Street 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 18C-140 Easthampton NTH.140 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 52 Hatfield Street Historic Name:
Slough Hill School Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Schoolhouse Date of Construction: 1877 Source: Registry of Deeds, 334.385 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Glass in doors replaced ca. 2005 Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.313 acres Setting: This house occupies a small lot separated from its surrounding cemetery.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [52 HATFIELD STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.140 ___ 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 Slough Hill School is a one-and-a-half story brick building under a front-gabled, slate roof.
It is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep and there is a full-width porch across the south façade. The porch is Italianate in style with chamfered posts supporting a
flat roof with relatively wide eaves overhang. The brick building has brownstone sills at its windows windows that have 4/4 sash, an unusual muntin configuration. Windows in the building
have segmentally arched, projecting brick lintels and on the roof is a brick chimney and two metal vents. As was common with schools there are two entries on the south façade – one for
boys and one for girls – and they have glass and paneled doors. The glass in the doors has been blasted into a design, but the doors themselves appear to be original. Centered between
the doors is a window with 4/4 sash. This is one of the few brick schoolhouses remaining in Northampton, if not the only one. 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 1976: “This brick
schoolhouse was built on a small plot of land acquired by the town in May of 1877. ‘Slough Hill’ is the name given to the area which included a Catholic cemetery. The schoolhouse has
the distinction of being bordered on three sides by St. Mary’s Cemetery.” 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:
5.8.1877