Island Road 112.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 46-54 Easthampton NTH.1106 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Ox Bow Address: 112 Island Road Historic Name:
Connecticut River Lumber Company Housing Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: late 19th century Source: Atlases & visual evidence
Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn, chicken
coop, shop. Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added, windows replaced 1970-2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.758 acres Setting: This is a north-facing
house on a large, fenced property.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [112 ISLAND ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1106 ___ 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 modest, one-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof, and is one of a number of
similarly modest houses in the Ox Bow. It is two bays wide and the equivalent of three bays deep for a rectangular plan. There is a one story ell, four bays long on the south. The house
has a full-width porch on the north façade resting on posts with simple braces at the eaves. There is a one-story bay window on the west elevation that adds to the complexity of the
plan. Windows have been replaced and the house sided in asbestos shingles. 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 is one of several 1 ½ story cottages located on the Ox Bow
in Southern Northampton. This area originally was part of Hadley, but in 1840, flood waters made this an island on the western side of the river. The entrance to the Ox Bow quickly silted
up and the island became connected to Northampton. The 1860 map shows two houses in the Ox Bow, and 24 years later there was only one more. However, a spur of the Connecticut River Railroad
had been introduced to the Ox Bow and the 1884 atlas shows the Connecticut River Lumber Co., Mt. Tom Kindling Wood Co., and several small shops. Expansion of his industry in the late
19th and early 20th centuries led to about 25 more houses being built, including two large boarding houses. This house probably first appears on the 1895 atlas.” On that atlas it is
identified as part of the Lumber Company. 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.