North Main Street 186.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 16D-8 Easthampton NTH.59 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 186 North Main Street Historic
Name: Edwin Mason House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1888-1889 Source: Registry of Deeds and Directory Style/Form: Queen
Anne/Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows
replaced, ca. 2000 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.174 acres Setting: This is a north-facing house that occupies a corner lot in a neighborhood of late 19th c.
houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [186 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.59 ___ 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 house like its neighbor at 172-174 North Main Street, is a well-preserved example of the Queen
Anne style. It is a two-and-a-half story house with a front-gable roof. It has a two-and-a-half story wing on the east and a two-story ell on the south for a T-shaped plan. The main
block of the house is three bays wide and has a side hall entry with a pedimented portico on Doric Doric colonettes. The wing is three bays wide and has an altered window on the first
floor and a secondary entry sheltered by a smaller, pedimented portico. Windows in the house have capped lintels and replacement 4/1 sash. In the gable end of the main block is a pointed
window, found in a number of Queen Anne style houses in Northampton, and a diamond shaped window in the gable end of the wing. Although the house is primarily Queen Anne, its all-clapboard
exterior and simple trim, along with its colonettes supported portico are transitional to the Colonial Revival style. 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 large two-and-a-half
story house was built in the late 1880’s for Edwin Mason, a gardener.” 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. 425-P. 59, 298-237