North Street 173.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-139 Easthampton NTH.393 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 173 North Street Historic Name: George
Norton House Uses: Present: Single-family residence and funeral home Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1900-1905 Source: Directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding applied, windows replaced,
wing added, ca. 1990-2005. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.705 acres Setting: Faces north on a corner lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [173 NORTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.393 ___ 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 large Colonial Revival style house that illustrates the style’s reduction of ornament
in favor of simplified geometric forms. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a steeply-pitched hipped roof. The house is vinyl-sided and has vinyl replacement windows that obscure
much of its original appearance, however, its form is clear. Cross-gables extend from the roof to the west and east, a hipped dormer is centered on the north and a two-and-a-half story
ell is on the south. There is a full-width, shed-roofed porch on Doric columns across the north façade. It has a broad pediment marking its entry. A secondary porch is located on the
west elevation of the ell. It has a shed roof and rests on columns that are somewhat reduced in circumference. A third porch is located at the second story of the east elevation of the
main block of the house. A one-story wing was added to the east elevation. 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 1897, Orchard Street was laid out by the three owners of property
along its length from Bridge Street to North Street, S.A. Clark, J.S. Graves and H.R. Hinckley. This corner lot was soon after bought by George Norton, a conductor for the B&A Railroad.
Mr. Norton was living here by 1905.” 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.