Orchard Street 21-23.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):
April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 25C-150 Easthampton NTH.394 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 21-23 Orchard Street Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Two-family residence Date of Construction: 1897-1915 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows replaced, ca. 2005.
Porch rebuilt with altered posts. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.152 acres Setting: This house faces south on a residential street leading from a main thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [21-23 ORCHARD STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.394 ___ 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 two-and-a-half story, two-family house follows a plan and elevation that appears regularly
in Northampton’s residential neighborhoods. It consists of a hipped roof from which project two cross-gabled pavilions, the whole connected on the façade by a full-width porch. Details
vary within this common form. Here there is a pedimented dormer centered between the two pavilions and there is a pediment on the porch roof above its entry. Queen Anne style multi-light
windows appear in the gable fields of the pavilions. Vinyl siding and narrowed, vinyl replacement windows, however, have caused a loss in visible historic materials and a consequent
loss of stylistic details. Battered porch posts on pedestals appear to have been rebuilt since 1980, and a porch railing has been removed, while stair railings have been added. 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: “A subdivision plan for Orchard Street was filed in 1897. At that time there were three homesteads on the north side of Bridge Street between the
cemetery and Grant Avenue. These homesteads were extended northerly almost to North Street. Orchard Street and Elizabeth Street (1908) were laid out through these homesteads. Both streets
were predominantly developed with two-family houses.” 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. 503-P.
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