Myrtle Street 39.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, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24D-167 Easthampton NTH.327 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 39 Myrtle Street Historic Name: Henry
Frost House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1871 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Porch enclosed on west, ca. 1900. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.158 acres Setting: This is a south-facing house on a corner lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [39MYRTLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.327 ___ 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 one of the house forms that is repeated on Myrtle Street a number of times. It is one-and-a-half
stories in height under a steeply-pitched front-gable roof that is slate-covered and has a centered chimney. At 29 Myrtle Street the same house form was given Gothic Revival trim, at
17 Myrtle Street it has lost its trim but was given the same form. Here the house was made Italianate in style with the insertion of two arched windows under earred architrave surrounds.
Above the two windows in the gable field is a rondel window. The house is three bays wide with a side-hall entry that is sheltered by a pedimented portico on posts with curved brackets
at its eaves. A one-story wing across the west elevation may originally have been a porch that was enclosed for extra space. Sash in the house is a mixture of 1/1 and 2/2. 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 1870 and 1871, Warner and Dawson purchased two acres of land between State Street and King Street. A subdivision plan was prepared and filed in
1872 for Pearl Street (now Myrtle Street) and the north side of Summer Street. Most of the lots had ‘cottage houses’ built upon them, and were leased to tenants. This corner lot was
built upon and and sold to Henry Frost for $2800 in August of 1871.” 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. 411-P. 190, 313-425, 291-427, 285-191, 277-15, 276-445 and 446