Leonard Street 3.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 11A-36 Easthampton NTH.37 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 3 Leonard Street Historic Name: Brian
Moran House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1873-1884 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added ca. 2000. South wing added,
n.d. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.86 acres Setting: This property is at the end of a dead end with a view to the south of the valley.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [3 LEONARD STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.37 ___ 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 Moran House is the most common house form taken during the Italianate style period. It is two-and-a-half
stories in height two-story ell under a front-gable roof. It is three bays wide and two bays deep and there is a one-and-a-half story ell on the east as well as a two-story wing on the
south that was a later addition. The house has a full-width arcaded porch across its west façade. The shed roof of the porch rests on posts. Windows have has their sashes replaced with
1/1. An oculus window in the gable field is an Italianate feature. Eaves of the roof are relatively wide and thinly boxed, which is characteristic of houses built in the 1870s in Northampton.
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 is located on a spur of Leonard Street that originally continued southerly to Florence Road. The 1794 map shows the road to Williamsburg
looping westerly from its current location. By 1831, the short-cut had been constructed and the southern half of the loop was abandoned. The northern half of the loop was a connector
between the village of Leeds and Haydenville Road north of the center, also appears on the 1831 map. By 1873, four houses were located on Front Street, the only development of this hill
area other than the two mill owners’ houses at the south-western drop-off, which dated from 1812. During the 1870’s, the Nonotuck Silk Company began a subdivision north of Front Street
in this early phase. Bryan Moran, a farmer, is listed here on the 1884 Atlas.” 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.