North Street 124.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 25C-4 Easthampton NTH.381 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 124 North Street Historic Name: Edward
H. Spofford House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1891-1893 Source: Registry of Deeds and Directory Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.642 acres Setting: This house occupies a long lot that is shaded on each side by rows of fir trees.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [124 NORTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.381 ___ 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 Edward Spofford House is not as elaborate as its neighbor at 118-120, but it is also a good
example of the late Queen Anne style now beginning to become more simplified and geometric rather than elaborated and complex as its neighbor. It is a two-and-a-half story house under
a pyramidal hipped roof with cross-gable bays on the south and west. There is an off-center hipped roof dormer on the south side of the roof. The house is a greatly simplified two bays
wide with an entry and a large, fixed-light window with a decorative transom light at the first floor on the south façade. A full-width porch crosses the south façade and it has a projecting
pediment over its stairs. The porch’s hipped roof rests on widely spaced turned posts and has connected solid brackets at its eaves. The railings have turned balusters and an arcade
pattern in an Eastlake design that derives from Eastlake furniture. The west cross-gable bay is chamfered at the first story and its angled corners ornamented with scroll-cut braces.
The house is clapboard-sided and has scalloped shingles in its gables. 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 is one of five houses built between 1887 and 1895 on the north
side of North Street. Edward Strong, the owner of a large homestead on the street, began selling North Street frontage for residential development in 1887. In 1891, Edward Spofford,
an engineer for Boston and Maine Railroad, bought this lot.” 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.
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