Market Street 57.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, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-50 Easthampton NTH.2021 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 57 Market Street Historic Name: Seth
Strong II House Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1829-1833 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Greek Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced with vinyl
1/1 sash. Fire escape added, ca. 1980. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.252 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house with a wide side yard encircled with a picket
fence.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [57MARKET STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2021 ___ 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 Strong House is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gabled roof whose eaves make
full returns to form a Greek Revival pediment. It is three bays wide and the equivalent of five bays long. It has a two-story ell on the east that is four bays long and in the angle
between the main block of the house and the ell is an added wood fire escape under a hipped roof. There is also a one-story, angled bay window on the south elevation of the main block
of the house. The side-hall entry on the west façade is sheltered by a hipped roof portico on posts with respondent pilasters on the building wall. The portico has a row of dentils at
its cornice. Sash in the house is vinyl replacement and siding is asphalt shingles, so much of the character of the house is either lost or covered, but its Greek Revival form is still
evident. 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: “In 1829, Samuel (Seth?) Strong II obtained ¼ acres of land on the eastern side of Market Street for $200. Four years later, his heirs
sold the property ‘with buildings’ for $1450. For the next two years, the house was occupied by the Rev. John Todd, pastor of the Edwards Church in Northampton, and then it passed into
private hands, serving as a homestead for many people through the ensuing years. Unlike many other older Market Street homesteads this one didn’t remain in one family’s hands for very
long.” 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. 408-P.19, 268-417, 265-53, 220159, 162-171, 155-385,
143-29, 121-332, 80-498, 73-566, 71-454 and 455, 70-266, 60-562