Locust Street 321.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 23A-90 Easthampton NTH.187 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 321 Locust Street Historic
Name: Howard Hosford-G. Thompson House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1902 Source: Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form:
Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Charles H. Markle, Builder Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.275 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot overlooking a small park near Florence center.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [321 LOCUST STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.186 ___ 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 Hosford-Thompson House is a good example of the Colonial Revival style, although it is somewhat
idiosyncratic in its asymmetry. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a slate-covered, truncated hipped roof, on which is centered a shed roof dormer. The roof eaves are broad. The
house is three bays wide and the equivalent of three bays deep. It has a through-cornice exterior wall chimney on its east elevation where there is also a one-story screened porch on
columns. The south façade has a center entry reached by a column-supported portico that is slightly off-center. The flat-roofed portico has a shallow arched roof on it and paired columns
with respondent, engaged columns at the wall plane. The entry is trabeated and has leaded glass sidelights. At the second story level above the portico is an off-center, angled oriel
window. It is flanked by two windows with 6/1 sash. At the first story the flanking windows are a single window with 6/1 sash and a large, fixed, multi-light window. The house is framed
with narrow pilasters. This is the Colonial Revival style as it was influenced by other contemporary trends including the Prairie Style. 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 listed in Northampton’s business report for 1902 as having been built for real-estate agents Edward Barrett and James O’Brien for $3000. Later that same year, they sold
the house to George Thompson, a motor man for the Northampton Street Railway Co. The area north of Main and Locust Streets, and east of Chestnut Street in Florence was developed in the
early 20th century. For years, the land had been owned by D.G. Littlefield, one of Florence’s prominent industrialists, but there was very little pressure for development until after
1900. By that time, most of the village south of Main Street had been developed.” Further research indicates that this house was built for Howard Hosford, who was General Manager of
Norwood Engineering, which was on North Maple Street. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Drake, David. Northampton Historical
Commission, interior signatures found in building for Hosford and Markle. 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 759-P.413, 667-401, 625-401, 625-217, 623-289, 622-447, 614-197, 565-102