Massasoit Street 60.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 24C-71 Easthampton NTH.286 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 60 Massasoit Street Historic Name:
Walter and Mary Cole House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1889-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen
Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Porch enclosed, chimney added, n.d. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.364 acres acres Setting: This house faces east on a late 19th early 20th century residential
street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [60MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.286 _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. This is a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne style house that is gable and wing in form. The front-gabled
section is one bay wide with an angled bay window at its first floor level. The wing section formerly had a wrap around porch that has been enclosed and the roof of the wing extends
in one section to porch roof level, and on it is a triangular dormer with a pointed window in its field. There are identical shaped chimneys on the gable and wing sections of the house.
Typical of a Queen Anne style house, the siding has been applied to gain maximum visual interest. Broad beltcourses divide the clapboards of the first and second stories and there are
shingles in the front gable field. The second story window is a replacement. The angled bay window has a paneled base and two narrow stringcourses run above and below the windows. The
enclosed porch has a clapboard-sided chimney rising from its roof. 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: “Massasoit Street was opened in 1869 through a subdivision plan filed by
Henry Maynard. Development was slow and by 1884, only a dozen houses had been constructed. However, the next decade witnessed the bulk of construction and by 1895 most of the present
residences had been built. In 1889, Mary and Walter Cole purchased this lot for $400 and by 1895, this house had been built.” 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. 445-P. 73, 274-7
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [60MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.286 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 Cole 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. The Cole House is a fair 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.