Main Street 1 (FLORENCE).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-86 Easthampton NTH.186 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 1 Main Street Historic Name:
Herbert S. Richards House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1905 Source: Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: stone, concrete Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles, granite blocks Roof: slate, asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major
Alterations (with dates): Ell added on north, ca. 1960. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.132 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot in a mixed neighborhood
of residential and commercial properties.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [1MAIN 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 Herbert Richards House is a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne style house under a side-gable
roof with a centered cross-gable on its south façade, which heralds the coming Tudor Revival style. The cross-gable on the south façade is steeply pitched and has at its eaves returns
a curved siding pattern suggesting the outline of a Tudor Revival style barge board. At the southeast corner corner of the house is a round, two-story tower with a slate-covered, conical
roof topped by a copper finial. A two-story bay window on the east elevation and an added one-and-a-half story ell on the north elevation add to the complexity of the building’s plan.
A full-width porch crosses the south façade overlapping slightly the tower and echoing the round tower with a round corner. The porch has a hipped roof that rests on Doric half-columns
on quarry-faced granite block piers. The porch has a pediment over its stairs and piers are connected by railings with square balusters. The house is sided in clapboards on the first
story and shingles on the second story. 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 occupies a prominent corner site on Main Street in Florence opposite a small park.
The house was built in 1905 for Herbert Richards, and replaces an earlier house. Early owners of the property, including Mr. Richards, operated a meat market in a small frame building
next westerly along Main Street.” 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 593-P. 39, 503-199, 437-339