Market Street 7.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-96 Easthampton NTH.2049 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 7 Market Street Historic Name: Williams
House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1700 Source: deed Style/Form: Federal Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation:
brick, concrete Wall/Trim: weatherboards and clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): A portion of the house demolished, 1912.
Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.062 acres Setting: This house is west-facing and is heavily screened with shrubbery. It is in a predominantly commercial section
of Northampton, though further up the street there are other residential buildings.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [7MARKET STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2049 ___ 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-and-a-half story house under a side-gable roof and its proportions are those of an
18th century building. It is three bays wide and has a center entry. The entry is sheltered by a flat-roofed portico on posts with respondent pilasters at the inner wall. The relatively
narrow entry surround is composed of pilasters supporting impost blocks and a full entablature with a projecting cornice. The portico is Italianate in style and suggests a circa 1850
date, but the attenuated entry surround with pilasters and entablature in low relief is Federal in style. Windows on the west façade have simple surrounds with drip edge lintels and
those on the second floor are set very closely to the eaves as was common between 1700 and about 1776. Sash is 2/2 wood, a later 19th century configuration. The house is sided in a wide
weatherboard on the west and on the north elevation where one or more bays were removed, it is sided in clapboards. On the roof ridge in alignment with neither the center door nor a
second story window is a chimney. Structural investigation might be clarify the house’s original configuration, but it is safe to say that it was not a full three bays wider, and that
one or two bays were more likely to have been the number removed. This is an important house in Northampton’s history – both architecturally and as part of its developmental history.
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 1975: “The remaining half of the Williams House on Market Street is said to be one of the oldest buildings in Northampton. ‘It is thought by some
local historians that the house may be one of the oldest in Northampton. An ancient deed to the property, possessed by the Poleto family, is signed by John Pynchon, founder of Northampton.
The deed conveys title from Thomas Strong and wife, of Northampton, to Richard Long, of Hartford. Later the lot and original house became the property of the Michael Williams family
and is still referred to as ‘The Williams House.’ Joseph Poleto, Mrs. Tomeo’s father, bought the house and lot in 1912. A Mr. Risley, who was involved in the purchase, tore down his
part of the house and built a small business on the northerly half of the lot.” 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.