High Street 81.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 17C-107 Easthampton NTH.90 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 81 High Street Historic Name: Uses:
Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation:
brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Some windows replaced, ca. 1980. Condition: good Moved: no
| x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.241 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot in a neighborhood of mid-late 19th century houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [81 HIGH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.90 ___ 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 unique Queen Anne style house in Florence designed to accommodate its corner lot. It
is one-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof with a jerkin head. It has a cross-gable bay with a jerkin head on the west and a two-story ell on the north or rear. The
façade of the clapboard-sided house is two bays wide with a three-sided angled bay window adjacent to its main entry that is set at the corner of south and west elevations. A wrap around
porch on posts with brackets at the eaves crosses the south façade and turns to the west elevation. While the houses in this section of Florence were more modest in size than elsewhere
in Northampton, they were often well-designed and stylistically up-to-date, and this is a good example of their architectural achievement. 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 house first appeared on the 1895 atlas and was owned by Fred Crossman, co-owner of Crossman and Polmatie [also spelled “Polmantie”], plumbers and hardware dealers in Florence.”
The two invested in land on Stilson Street just north of this property. The Polmantie house occupied a lot in 1895 owned by both Crossman and Polmantie. 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.