Munroe Street 29.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-109 Easthampton NTH.1028 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 29 Munroe Street Historic
Name: Uses: Present: Two family Original: Single family Date of Construction: 1876-80 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Late Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation:
Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Asbestos shingles mid 20th century, asbestos shingles removed circa 2000 Condition:
Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.18 acres Setting: House sits very close to the street on a corner lot. It is within an established residential neighborhood of mostly former
single family homes.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [29MUNROE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1028 _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-and-a-half story late Italianate style home with a front gable roof and a cross gable
on its western elevation. The front gable originally had a small two over two sash gothic style window in the gable field but this was replaced with a Palladian window sometime after
1980. The house is three bays wide and has a small pedimented entry portico with square posts with beveled corners and balustrade with square balusters. The house retains its original
two over two sash windows but these are partially hidden by metal storm windows. Windows have projecting cornices and the trim is painted to match the entablature found elsewhere on
the home. The eastern elevation of the house has a one-story, three-sided bay window. The western elevation has a two story wing that is one bay wide. The house has a center ridgeline
brick chimney. There is a two story rear ell with two-story porch on its eastern elevation. Before both houses were renovated, this house was almost an identical match to its neighbor
at 25 Munroe Street 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 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 the 1870s. By 1873, the first house had
been constructed at 37 Munroe Street. Waldo Lamb was listed as first living here in the 1880 directory. Waldo Lamb was an owner, along with Horace Lamb, of the Horace Lamb & Co. Wire
manufactory on Clark Avenue.” Sean P. Gaffney owned this house in 2010 as well as the house at 25 Munroe 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 of Deeds: bk 484-p 127, 474-316. Northampton Directory: 1875-76, 1880-81, 1895-96