North Main Street 171.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, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 16D-18 Easthampton NTH.66 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 171 North Main Street Historic
Name: R. Lynn Porter House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1887-1893 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Bennett Allen, Builder, attributed Exterior Material: Foundation: brick, fieldstone Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt, metal Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Shed Major Alterations (with
dates): Siding applied and windows replaced, ca. 2005 Condition: good Moved: no | x x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.471 acres Setting: This is a south-facing house in a residential section
of Route 9.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [171 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.66 ___ 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. The Porter House is Queen Anne in style and in proportions. It is a tall, two-and-a-half stories
in height under a front-gable roof that has a cross-gable on the east and a wing on the west. There is also a one-and-a-half story ell on the north giving the house a rather complex
floor plan that was a feature of the Queen Anne style. An enclosed side porch was added to the ell and built on fieldstone foundations. Queen Anne ornament, however, is minimal due in
part to the vinyl siding but also perhaps to more modest origins than grander versions of the style further east on Elm Street in Northampton center. Windows are paired with 1/1 sash
and there is a two-story bay window on the east with a metal, half-conical roof. This metal, half-conical roof used on a bay window is an element that appears on several houses here
on North Main Street. In the angle between the main block of the house and the west wing is an entry porch on turned posts. 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: “This house
appears to have been built in the late 1880’s. Bennett Allen, a carpenter who lived next south of this house, acquired this lot (lot no. 1 on Charles Warren’s 1869 subdivision plan for
the ‘north side of Main Main Street’—now North Main Street) in 1885. Mr. Allen possibly built this house himself, and it’s known to have been on this site by 1893 when the lot ’with
buildings’ was sold to R. Lynn Porter, an employee of the Nonotuck Silk Co.” 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