Island Road 86.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 46-056 Easthampton NTH.1108 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 86 Island Road Historic Name: A. Johnson
House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1870 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Cape Cod Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick and concrete Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: New England style barn across the street; studio Major Alterations (with
dates): Two rear ells added, ca. 1980, wing added on west, and windows replaced, ca. 1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.08 acres Setting: This house faces
north towards the Connecticut River and is screened from the road by a dense cover of shrubbery and trees.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [86 ISLAND ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1108 ___ 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 two-story house under a front-gable, asphalt shingled roof with a center chimney. It
is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep with two, one-story ells added to the south or rear. It is a very modest house stylistically but has a side porch on the east
elevation with Queen Anne style turned posts. Windows are replacement 1/1 and there is a long shed roof dormer on the west side of the roof that raises the elevation of the house. 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 the
Connecticut River cut through the slender neck of the Ox Bow and made this an island and the western side of the river. The entrance to the Oxbow 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 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 Company, Mt. Tom Kindling Wood Company, and several small shops. Expansion of these industries 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 1873 atlas as the property of A. Johnson.
The 1875 directory lists Herbert Johnson, a farmer, in this area. By 1885, Garrett O’Neil, an employee of the Connecticut River Lumber Company, was living here.” 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.