Pine Street 122.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):
May, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 23A-147 Easthampton NTH.206 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 122 Pine Street Historic Name:
Dwight B. and Emily Look House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1862-1865 Source: Registry of Deeds and Sheffield Style/Form:
Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, flushboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows
replaced, porch supports replaced, ca. 1980. Exterior wall chimney added, n.d. Condition: Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.13 acres Setting: This house faces north
on a lot adjacent to a church.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [122 PINE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.206 __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 two-and-a-half story Italianate style house that shares some features with its neighbor
at 121 Pine Street being two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gabled roof whose eaves are bracket-supported. Like the house at 121 Pine Street it is three bays wide and its
north façade is crossed by a full-width porch with bracketed eaves. Here, however, the porch supports have been replaced with wrought iron and the first story of the north façade is
flushboard sided rather than clapboard sided in an effort to suggest the stone of Italian buildings, an elegant feature. It is further distinguished by the use of pedimented window and
door surrounds that are supported on small brackets. On the west elevation is a one-and-a-half story wing with correspondingly wide eaves. 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 1861, Plympton Smith bought almost an acre of land on the southern side of Pine Street from the Greenville Mfg. Co. The Company was located along the banks of the Mill River and
owned land extending to the top of the river terrace, along which Pine and Beacon Streets run. Workers’ housing, in the form of single and double cottages, was built along the northern
side of Nonotuck Street, at the base of the terrace. During the 1860’s, the land atop the terrace was sold off for residential development. This area on the plateau was more oriented
towards Main Street in Florence.” By 1873 this house had been constructed and in the ownership of Dwight B. and Emily Look and their two children Frank and Fannie who were both in school.
Dwight was a cord manufacturer. By 1884 the Looks had moved to 116 Elm Street and the house was occupied by Mrs. R. B. Bardwell who was still there in 1895. 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. 305-P. 473, 277-41, 209-42, 203-345
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [122 PINE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.206 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.