Massasoit Street 66.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-069-001 Easthampton NTH.2525 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 66 Massasoit Street Historic
Name: Benjamin and Mary Hargreaves House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1890 Source: maps of 1884 and 1895 Style/Form:
Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Attached two-story
garage added, ca. 1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.3 acres Setting: This house faces south on a quiet, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [66 Massasoit Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2525 _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 one of the few one-and-a-half story houses on Massasoit Street and the only one that faces
south rather than towards the street. It is a raised Cape two bays wide and two bays deep and it has two, through-eaves, shed roof dormers on its south façade. A porch wraps from the
south façade across the east elevation. It is Queen Anne in style with turned posts and jigsaw-cut brackets at the eaves. The porch has a square baluster railing above a latticed apron.
A two-story addition extends from the west elevation of the house. On the first story level it has two garage bays and on the second story are two windows. This addition has an exterior
end wall chimney on the west elevation. There is a chimney centered on the roof of the main block of the house. The roof of the house has fairly wide eaves that are thinly boxed. Sash
in the house is 1/1 replacement and 2/2 wood sash. 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. The first owners of this house were Benjamin and Mary Ann Hargreaves who had emigrated from England and Ireland
respectively. They were both servants in 1880 and had living with them two other servants, Letitia and Rachel Gray. According to the street directory of that year, by 1895 Benjamin was
a laborer rather than a servant. The Hargreaves were among the first to build on Massasoit Street as it was laid out in 1869 but mainly developed between 1880 and 1890. After Benjamin’s
death Mary continued to live here through 1915, but by 1926 the house was owned by another widow, Mrs. Mabelle Nelson. Mabelle and William Nelson had lived for years in Northampton on
Fort Hill Terrace and he worked as a cutter in a textile factory. Margaret Storrs, an instructor at Smith College in the Philosophy department owned the house in 1935. 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [66 Massasoit Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2525 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 Hargreaves 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 Hargreaves House is a modest 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.