High Street 91.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-134 Easthampton NTH.92 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 91 High Street Historic Name:
F. Crossman House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1860-1873 Source: Map & Atlas Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Corner porch glass-enclosed, ca.
1960. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.616 acres Setting: This house is south-facing and occupies a raised lot that is shaded by mature blue spruce trees.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [91 HIGH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.92 ___ 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 one of the finest Italianate style houses in Florence and among the best-maintained as
well. It is one-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gabled roof that has wide eaves supported on paired Italianate brackets. It has cross-gable bays on the east and west and a
one-story ell on the rear with a secondary entry. There is an angled bay window on the west elevation that adds to the complexity of the house plan. The three-bay-wide main block of
the house has a full-width screened porch whose roof repeats the paired brackets. In the angle between the main block and the east cross-gabled bay is a one-story, glass-enclosed porch.
The secondary entry to the north ell is ornate with a front-gabled portico on Italianate style chamfered posts. In its rural setting, the house exemplifies the architectural design that
was promoted by A. J. Downing in his book The Architecture of Country Houses of 1850. 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 was built soon after High Street was
opened in the late 1860’s. The 1873 atlas shows the house and lists the owner as Dexter Goodell, a pattern maker at the Florence Machine Co. During the 1890’s, the house was owned and
occupied by the Rev. Frederic Hinckley, pastor of the Free Congregational Society in Florence.” 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.