Park Street 36.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 Please see attached map. Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning
Commission Date (month /year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 23A-025 Easthampton NTH.2543 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address:
36 Park Street Historic Name: Adeline Bowers House Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1854 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form:
front-gabled Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: wood shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with
dates): Wood shingles added as siding, windows replaced, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.419 acres Setting: House faces west towards the Park Street
Cemetery.
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sheet 1 NTH.2438 __X_ 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 small house, one-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gabled roof. It is three
bays wide with a side hall entry on the first story and a single window at the second story of the east façade similar to its neighbor at 32 Park Street. The house has a cross gable
bay on its north elevation and a secondary entry on its south elevation. Window sash is 1/1. This house represents the smaller, rental housing that went up on Park Street to accommodate
families that came to work in Florence’s industries. 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. Park Street began to be developed in 1854 when Isaac Parsons filed a subdivision plan for Park, Meadow
and Prospect Streets. Within six years there were five new houses on the street’s west side with Adeline Bowers owning two and Parsons owning three. Parsons was a store owner who also
invested in real estate owning a fourth house on Park Street as well as one on Corticelli Street. Adeline Bowers owned this and the house next door to it on the south, though she does
not appear in the federal censuses for 1850 and 1860. Rather, in the 1955 state census Adeline E. Bowers lived in Bellingham, Massachusetts with a husband and two daughters. He was a
bootmaker. By 1884 the two two houses had been sold and were owned by J. Riley (#36) and F. Main (#30). In 1895 West Center Street is in and a new house is north of it. Charles E. and
Mary Gould owned this house, though he is listed in the 1895 directory as living at 30 Maple Street. Gould was superintendent of the Northampton Water works, then treasurer of the Northampton
Electric Light Company. They lived with their daughter Mary Gould who was treasurer of the Florence Savings Bank and a fire insurance agent and this house was probably rented out as
an investment. 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.
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sheet 2 NTH.2438 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a Florence Center Historic District. The potential historic district of Florence Center
is significant as the commercial, residential, institutional center of the village that developed from 1657 when it was set off as Northampton’s “Inner Commons” as agricultural land
and 1681 when the first sawmill was erected at a falls on the Mill River. The agricultural and industrial village developed through the 18th and 19th centuries around industry on the
Mill River, agriculture on the alluvial flood plain and the Strong Tavern and later Cottage Hotel at the intersection of Main and Maple Streets. It is significant for the silk industry
that flourished through the Civil war as an alternative to slave-picked cotton and for the establishment of the Northampton Association for Education and Industry, a utopian community
that existed 1843-1847. Association members after its close continued in Florence their principles of equality by running the Underground Railroad through the village and harboring fugitive
slaves. It is significant as the home of Sojourner Truth. 19th century industry in the Center included the Florence Sewing Machine Company, which built its own housing. Architecturally
the Center is significant for the range of Gothic Revival, Italianate, Stick Style, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style homes, for its commercial blocks and library
in the the Revival styles of the late 19th century. Gothic Revival and Italianate style churches are architect-designed in high style versions. The potential district has integrity of
workmanship, design, feeling, association, and materials.
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