South Street 152.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38B-115 Easthampton NTH.1033 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 152 South Street Historic
Name: Locke House (Mrs. George Strong House) Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1887 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, Nov.
22, 1887 Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Charles H. Jones Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Wood shingles Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major
Alterations (with dates): Vinyl windows (post 1974) Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.392 acres Setting: House sits in a residential neighborhood of former single
family homes that have been converted to buildings with two or more residential units.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [152 SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1033 _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 two-and-a-half story home is an excellent example of the Queen Anne style. The home is irregularly
massed home and incorporates numerous gables, a polygonal tower with polygonal roof and turreted second story porch above front entry porch. The large front gable has three-part oriel
with pedimented gable that has a decorative tympanum. The gabled front entry porch features a sunburst design in the gable field. The porch has an elaborate spindle frieze, turned posts,
and balustrade of square balusters. The second story turreted porch displays matching porch features. Stained glass sidelights ornament the front entrance as does flanking picture windows.
The house has new windows that are one over one sash. The southern elevation also has a two story bay topped by a gable roof. The house is further ornamented by scalloped wood shingle
siding. The house has two brick chimneys the second of which is a through-cornice chimney on the southern elevation of the home. Additional features of this home were difficult to discern
due to the extensive foliage. 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 1975: “C.H. Jones, local architect. 1875, Gazette notes that ‘C.H. Jones of this town, the well-known painter,
is acquiring quite the reputation as an architect.’ A schoolhouse and hotel were at that time attributed to him; by 1887, the year of the design of the Strong (Locke) House, Jones had
planned 57 houses, 3 churches, and other buildings. ‘His first house was the house of William A. Dickinson, Hatfield.’ Other residences in Northampton designed by Jones include the Crooks
House (28 Pomeroy Terrace). Mrs. George (Martha) Strong sold the residence to Mary A. Locke in 1895 and the Locke name appears along with the house on the 1895 Atlas of Northampton.
It is probably for this reason that the house is locally known as the Locke House.” 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.