Munroe Street 11.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38B-103 Easthampton NTH.1024 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 11 Munroe Street Historic
Name: Vernett E. Cleveland House Uses: Present: Six unit residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: 1892-94 Source: Registry of Deeds and Directory Style/Form:
Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Vinyl Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Vinyl replacement
siding and windows. Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.17 acres Setting: House sits very close to the street in an established residential neighborhood of former
single family homes. House has a few shrubs in the small front yard.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [11MUNROE ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet
1 NTH.1024 __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-story Italianate home with low pitched hipped roof with wide eaves. The roof line is broken by a central
wall gable with lunette. The symmetry of the front façade is disrupted by a two-story corner bay window on the western elevation of the home. The house has classical detailing such as
its slim fluted cornerboards, wide frieze, and second story windows with projecting lintels; however most of these details are vinyl replacements. The house has lost many of its original
architectural features since it was first inventoried in 1980. Vinyl siding now covers the entire façade. The cornerboards and wide frieze are now vinyl as are the window surrounds and
attic story lunette. The frieze originally had pattered ventilators before the post-1980 renovation. The original windows have also been replaced. The front entrance is marked by portico
with front gable roof that is supported by fluted Doric columns resting on high pedestals. The house has a two story rear ell of almost equal size to the main block of the house. On
the western elevation of the home, there is a one-story shed roof porch with matching features. The house has one center brick chimney and rests on a brick foundation. 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: “David M, Clapp, a South Street farmer and member of a family which had first settled on South Street in 1713, owned land between what was originally Franklin Avenue
(now Munroe Street) and Columbus Avenue. His homestead stretched easterly from South Street over the brow of the Mill River terrace into the Meadows. After his death, his daughters Harriet
and Jane acquired the property. Lots were sold on the south side of Munroe Street. In 1892 Vernett Cleveland bought this lot from Harriet Clapp and had this house built by 1894. Mr.
Cleveland was a bookkeeper for the Smith Carr Baking Company.” House owned by Daniel and Shirley Levin in 1980 and William F. and Patricia Boyle in 2010. 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, 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. 455-p.197, 455-349, & 784-236 Northampton Directory 1894-95