North Main Street 177.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-17 Easthampton NTH.65 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 177 North Main Street Historic
Name: Thomas P. Smith House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1870-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Gothic
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding applied and windows
replaced, ca. 2005 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.42 acres Setting: This is a south-facing house in a residential section of Route 9.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [177 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.65 ___ 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 one-and-a-half story house that is gable-and-wing in form and from the steep pitch of
its roof and broad eaves overhang, was originally more Gothic Revival in style than it now appears. It is very similar to the Gothic Revival style house at 124 North Main Street in plan
and elevation. The main block of the house is three bays wide and the side hall entry is sheltered sheltered by a hood on consoles that were extended full-length and latticed for a unique
entry. The wing of the house has an equally steeply pitched roof with a shed-roof dormer, and a porch across its south façade that has been extended and enclosed. The house has been
vinyl sided and its windows replaced, so it has lost a large portion of its stylistic character. 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, Thomas Smith, a painter, acquired
lot no. 2 of Charles Warren’s subdivision plan for the north side of North Main Street in Florence. North Main Street had long existed as the ‘road to Williamsburg,’ but hadn’t been
developed residentially until the 1860’s. Mr. Warren had purchased much of the land along the northern side of the street early in the 1860’s and sold lots for homesteads throughout
the next two decades. In 1867, the Williamsburg division of the New Haven and Northampton Railroad was completed. This connected the mill villages of Williamsburg and Northampton, including
Florence, to the main north-south railroad in the center of Northampton. The railroad ran parallel to, and just north of, Main and North Main Streets in Florence and a depot was established
on North Maple Street. Mr. Warren’s homestead lots backed up to the railroad right-of-way.” 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