North Main Street 61A.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 17C-249 Easthampton NTH.2537 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 61A North Main Street Historic
Name: Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1920 Source: Sanborn Insurance Map of 1915 Style/Form: Craftsman Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: concrete Wall/Trim: stucco, wood shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no |
x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.5 acres Setting: This is one of three houses on a single lot. It is set at the northwest corner of the lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [61A North Main Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2537 ___ 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 stuccoed and shingled one-and-a-half story house under a hipped roof. It has high, rough-faced
concrete foundations and an asphalt shingled roof. There is a single chimney near the crest of the roof. The house is five bays wide on its south façade with the equivalent of two bays
enclosed in a stucco-sided porch and three bays of glassed-in porch. Stylistically, the house was originally Craftsman with its natural materials and shed roof dormer with exposed rafters.
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 1869, Jehiel Davis bought lots no. 6 and 7 of the Littlefield and Graves subdivision plan for the area bound by Graves Street (later Myrtle
Street, now Bardwell Street), North Main Street and North Maple Street in Florence. The house was built by 1873 as it is shown on the atlas of that year. Mr. Davis became superintendent
of the Florence Furniture Co. when it was founded in 1873.” This history refers to one of the three houses on this lot, 61 North Main Street. It does not refer to the house at 61A North
Main Street. On the Sanborn Insurance Maps for Northampton 61 North Main Street is the last building to be identified and only in a sketchy manner. Neither this building nor the one
at 59 appears on that map, which is not conclusive but suggestive that they date after 1915. 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.