North Main Street 300.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 16A-2 Easthampton NTH.48 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 300 North Main Street Historic Name:
John F. Warner House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1868 Source: Sheffield’s History of Florence Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2005; entry doors replaced.
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 2 acres Setting: This house is on what are now the grounds of Look Park and their connection is indicated by a wrought iron fence
on brick piers that surrounds both the house and the park.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [300 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.48 ___ 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 Warner House is a well-preserved example of the Italianate style. It is two-and-a-half stories
in height under a front-gable roof with paired brackets at the eaves and has a two-and-a-half story wing on the west for a gable-and-wing plan. In addition there is a two-and-a-half
story ell on the south. The main block of the house is three bays wide and four bays deep. Its sidehall entry has a pedimented lintel and all the window surrounds also have pedimented
lintels, a favored Italianate feature. The entry door and its original sidelights have been replaced by a stock door and sidelights. First floor windows of the north façade of the main
block are full-length with 2/2/2 sash. Windows elsewhere in the house are also 2/2. There is a porch on posts across the north façade of the wing. It has solid railings, which are a
later alteration. Windows in the wing on the second floor have pedimented lintels and they project into the frieze beneath the eaves that are also supported on paired brackets. There
is an angled bay window on the east elevation of the house. 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 house was built for John F. Warner in 1868, and replaced the
old homestead of his grandfather which had been built in 1778 and was the first permanent dwelling house erected in Florence. The Warner family had been so large that Florence area went
by the name of the ‘Warner School District’ in the early 19th century. Today the house serves as the residence of the superintendent of Look Park.” 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.