Massasoit Street 12.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 24C-78 Easthampton NTH.291 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 12 Massasoit Street Historic Name:
Emma G. Burrows House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1891-1894 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added, windows replaced,
ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.366 acres Setting: This is an east-facing house on a residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [12MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.291 _x__ 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 Emma Burrows House is a large house with the simplified elevation of the late Queen Anne style.
Two-and-a-half stories, iIt has a side-gable roof with a centered cross-gable and a center chimney. It is only three bays wide and two bays deep but its scale is such that it is one
of the larger houses on the street. Basically square in plan, the house has a two-story bay window on the south façade and a two-story open porch on the southwest corner to add some
complexity. It has a full-width porch on the east façade that is stacked with a second story section of porch, one bay wide. The porch at the first story had a hipped roof that rests
on turned posts and brackets connected by a frieze of turned spindles and a railing of turned balusters. There is a pediment supported on arched braces marking the entry stairs to the
porch. The second story of the porch has an unusual concave roof line with a kick eave. It has similar turned posts supports and brackets at the eaves. Windows are paired and have 1/1
sash. The vinyl siding and replacement windows obscure much of the original character of this house. 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 1869, Henry Maynard filed a subdivision
plan for Massasoit Street and attendant lots. Development was slow, with only a dozen houses erected by 1884. However, the next decade saw a good deal more building, and by 1895, most
of the present residences were built. In 1891, Emma Burrows bought lot no. 4 of the subdivision plan for $550. Three years later, when she sold the property, it was described as ’12
Massasoit 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. 467-P. 88, 439-8
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [12MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.291 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Burrows House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor,
Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few
gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years
to the present. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival
and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. Despite its vinyl siding, the Burrows House is a representative
example of the Queen Anne style and would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.