Pine Street 98.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-151 Easthampton NTH.209 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 98 Pine Street Historic Name:
A. L. Williston House Uses: Present: Six-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1865 Source: 1873 Atlas of Northampton Style/Form: Gothic Revival
Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: parged brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: metal, asphalt and slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): Siding applied and windows replaced, ca. 1990 Condition: good good Moved: no | | yes | x | Date ca. 1880 Acreage: 0.558 acres Setting: This house occupies
a corner lot in a residential section of Florence
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [98 PINE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.209 ___ 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 once-grand, two-and-a-half story house is among the more complicated buildings in Florence.
Its main block has a gambrel roof to which is attached a three-story tower under a bell-shaped roof at its northeast corner, and on which is a shed roof dormer three bays long on the
west end of the roof. The main block is four bays wide. On its east elevation is a one-and-a-half story wing under a side-gable roof. The wing on its north façade has a front-wall, cross-gable
with a Gothic quatrefoil window in its field. The main entry to the building is through the tower at the first story behind an added portico on posts. Its door surround is a Gothic three-pointed
molded arch, enclosing a glass and panel door. Above the entry is a round-arched stair window with an arched label lintel. At the third story level on the east, north and west elevations
are pairs of arched windows under arched molded lintels. The vinyl siding obscures window surrounds elsewhere on the building and windows are replacements, so this building does not
truly reflect the work of architect William Fenno Pratt. 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 1976: “This house, even though damaged by fire in the 1870’s, moved c. 1880 and altered
during the mid-20th century, still possesses enough of its original shape and character to be considered significant. A. L. Williston was the son of John Payson Williston, a prominent
Easthampton industrialist. The Willistons were also involved in the Greenville Manufacturing Company, a cotton cloth manufactory in Florence, and thus owned much of the land along the
Mill River below the terrace. A.L. Williston had his house built from designs of W.F. Pratt, Northampton’s most prominent architect of the 19th century. It was situated on the south
side of Pine Street, at the top of the terrace. After a fire in the late 1870’s, Mr. Williston moved to the center of Northampton, building a new house on Round Hill. The Round Hill
house was demolished during the early 1970’s. Williston’s house in Florence was moved about 100 yards westerly after the fire and divided into tenements.” 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. 471-P. 286, 441-132, 402-365, 372-265, 352-403