Munroe Street 43.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-113 Easthampton NTH.1032 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 43 Munroe Street Historic
Name: William Leary House Uses: Present: Single family Original: Single family Date of Construction: 1912-1914 Source: Registry of Deeds & Directory Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Wood shingles Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | |
Date Acreage: 0.17 acres Setting: House sits close to the street on a corner lot in a residential neighborhood of turn of the century homes.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [43MUNROE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1032 __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 Colonial Revival style with gambrel roof. The front façade has atypical
formations for a Colonial Revival style gambrel roof home. The second story of the front façade features two wall dormers that are separated by a recessed double window. Above this window
is a shed roof dormer with triple windows. The upper stories of the home are wood shingle sided while the first story is clapboard sided, adding visual interest to the façade. A one
story porch with low-pitched hipped roof extends across most of the front façade. The porch has paired columns that rest on piers covered by wood shingles. The first floor of the front
façade is divided into three sections. A large three-sided bay comprises the outer two sections and the center section consists of a double leaf entry door. Windows on the home are three
over one sash but they are partially hidden behind metal storm windows. The house currently has one chimney on the western end of the roof and there likely was matching chimney on the
eastern elevation at one point. 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: “In 1912, Harriet Clapp sold one of the last remaining lots on Munroe Street to William Leary. Munroe Street,
originally named Franklin Avenue, had been laid out in the early 1870’s and lots had been developed since that time. William Leary was employed by the T.F. McGrath & Company, leaf tobacco
dealers on Pleasant Street, and is first listed as living on Munroe Street in 1914.” 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. 678-P. 512