North Main Street 190.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-006 Easthampton NTH.57 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 190 North Main Street Historic
Name: George T. Smith House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1876-1883 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
George T. Smith, Builder, attributed Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows
replaced, ca. 2005 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.167 acres acres Setting: This is a north-facing house on Route 9 in a section of the highway that is bordered
by later 19th century houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [190 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.57 ___ 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 modest house that is a good representative of the working class housing that was constructed
in Northampton in the last quarter of the 19th century. That is, it is compact in size, has minimal ornament, but was well-constructed and built to last. The house is one-and-a-half
stories in height under a front-gable roof. It is three bays wide and has a side hall entry behind a full-width, hipped roof porch on posts. Window sashes are replacements, but the openings
are ample to let light and air in and the surrounds of both windows and the main door have drip molded lintels. A rondel window in the north façade’s gable field is the only ornament.
Roof eaves are thinly boxed and cornerboards are narrow. There is an angled bay window on the east elevation of the house and a rear, two-story ell on the south. The ell has a screened-in
side porch on the east and an added wooden roof deck. The house on its west elevation has a through-cornice dormer that is front-gabled and a square bay window two of whose openings
have been clapboard covered. 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 1875, George Smith, a carpenter, bought a small lot of land fronting on North Main Street in Florence for $250.
Mr. Smith probably constructed this house himself and used it as his homestead. However, his mortgage was foreclosed on and the property was sold to Paul Granger, also a carpenter in
1883.” 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. 377-P. 229, 330-343, 320-211