Massasoit Street 83.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-99 Easthampton NTH.300 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 83 Massasoit Street Historic Name:
Peter Murphy Rental House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1892 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen
Anne/Panel Brick Architect/Builder: Peter Murphy mason, attributed Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone, shingles Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.131 acres Setting: This house faces west at the north end of Massasoit Street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [83MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.300 __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 the sole brick house on Massasoit Street and among its best designs. The Queen Anne style
house is two-and-a-half stories under a truncated hipped roof. There are two, shingle-sided dormers with front gables on the north side of the roof. The roof has cross-gables on west
and south that also add the half story. The west cross-gable bay is angled and its eaves make full returns to form a pediment that has a wood-shingled tympanum. Adjacent to the angled
bay the main block of the house is two bays wide. An entry and window are sheltered by a hipped roof porch with turned posts and scroll-cut railings. The south cross-gable bay also had
a pedimented roof that is shingled. This bay is rectangular in plan and has two windows on its south elevation at first and second stories. Windows in the house are segmentally arched
and they have alternating red and yellow brick lintels in a striped pattern. The house can be seen as Panel Brick, the masonry version of the Queen Anne as it uses the brick to create
a visual liveliness to the exterior. An angled brick stringcourse crosses the exterior walls at the level of the second story lintels. There is a brownstone watertable, and rusticated
brownstone sills to add color and texture to the exterior. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses
of the building, building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. From Form B of 1980: “In 1872, Peter Murphy, a mason, purchased half of lot no. 28 from Henry
Maynard’s subdivision plan for Massasoit Street. However, this deed wasn’t filed until 1892, and this was probably the time when the house was built. Mr. Murphy seems to have built this
house for rental, as he lived next door at no. 81 Massasoit and retained title to this house after it was built. Mr. Murphy also owned several other houses at this end of 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 Registry of Deeds: Bk. 454-P. 217, 276-449, 264-271
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sheet 2 NTH.300 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 Murphy Rental 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 Murphy Rental House is a fine example of the Panel Brick
style and would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.