Munroe Street 20.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-095 Easthampton NTH.1020 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 20 Munroe Street Historic
Name: H. M. Smith Residence Uses: Present: Single family Original: Single family Date of Construction: 1869 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, Oct. 5, 1869 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
William F. Pratt Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Asbestos shingle Roof: Unknown Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Three bay, two story carriage house Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.29 acres Setting: Setting: House faces south to the street in an established residential neighborhood of former
single family homes. House has a few shrubs and trees on the property.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [20MUNROE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1020 __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 style home with very low-pitched hipped roof with wide overhanging
eaves. It is almost identical to its next door neighbor at 16 Monroe Street although it retains more of its historic features. This house is in the shape of an “L” and in the crook of
the “L” is a one-story porch with low-pitched roof. The Italianate style porch with wide frieze is supported by rounded columns that rest on pedestals. Underneath the porch roof is an
Italianate style three-sided front entry. There is a similar three-sided bay on the front façade. Windows are original to the home and have two over two sash with architrave surrounds
and projecting cornices. The window above the bay is paired, which is another distinct feature of the Italianate style. Another noteworthy features are the iron grate ventilators along
the attic frieze. The home has two brick chimneys and smaller additions to the rear of the home. This house also has a two-and-a-half story wood-shingle carriage house with three bays.
Each bay has a double leaf cross-buck door. 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 1975: “William F. Pratt, local architect, designed this house for H. M. Smith of the firm Smith and Stephens
in 1869. 1869. Pratt here employed the corner entryway which he used in 1859 in the Gothic Seth Hunt House on Bridge Street (117).” 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.