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Massasoit Street 64.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-70 Easthampton NTH.285 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 64 Massasoit Street Historic Name: George W. Smith House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1889-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2005 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.364 acres Setting: This house faces east on a tree-shaded, residential street. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [64MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.285 __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 two-and-a-half story, Colonial Revival style house has a front-gable roof and extends to the west with a long two-and-a-half story ell. It has a cross-gable bay on the south to which is attached a two-story, square bay window. The house is three bays wide and has a generous wraparound porch across its east façade and on to the north elevation. The porch has large square piers that rest on paneled pedestals and are connected by a railing with square balusters. The side-hall entry has a glass and paneled wood door adjacent to two 1/1 sash windows. At the second story level are three windows with 1/1 sash. Above them in the shingled gable field is a pair of windows with 2/2 sash under a single lintel. Wide beltcourses divide the stories of the clapboard-sided first and second floors. The ell almost doubles the house in size. 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, Massasoit Street was laid out through Henry Maynard’s subdivision plan. Most of the development though took place between the mid 1880’s and mid 1890’s, and by 1895, the street appeared substantially as it does today. In 1889, George Smith, a mason, purchased this lot of land for $40 and established his homestead here.” 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. 431-P. 202, 274-7 INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [64MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.285 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 Smith 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 Smith House is a good example of the Colonial Revival style and would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.