South Street 176.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-154 Easthampton NTH.1055 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 176 South Street Historic
Name: Jonathan Strong Residence Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1862 Source: Hampshire Gazette, Jun. 10, 1862 Style/Form:
Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Brick Roof: Unknown Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.468 acre 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] [176 SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1055 __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 story Italianate style home with very low pitched hipped roof. The wide overhanging
eaves are supported by brackets. The wide frieze has decoratively patterned iron ventilators. A bracketed screened porch extends across the full width of the front façade. The screened
porch has chamfered posts that rest on solid brick piers, solid frieze, balustrade of bowed balusters, and lattice apron. The front entrance has an elaborately styled door with ornately
decorated leaded transom and sidelights and this door is very similar in style to the house at 171 South Street. Above the porch, at the center of the front façade, is a bayed window.
On the southern elevation of the home is a shallow two story shingled bay that is rectilinear in shape and has cross-hatched glazing on the second story with recessed corners on the
first story. This feature was employed on other Italianate style homes in this area of Northampton. Most of the home’s windows are six over six sash and have their orginal glazings.
Windows have stone lintels and sills. The house has a two story rear ell, also clad in brick and three brick chimneys, one of which is on the rear ell. 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: “Jonathan Strong had this brick residence built in 1862 on land of the Strong Family. Calvin Strong owned the earlier residence, corner of South and Fort Streets, and
sold the land to the northeast to J. Strong in 1862. The new brick structure was hailed by the Hampshire Gazette as ‘one of the finest dwellings’ on South Street. At the time of its
construction, brick was scarce in the area, the Civil War and local conditions limiting production. In its massing, if not in its decorative elements, the structure is related to the
adjacent Calvin Strong House, a Federal style dwelling. The architect of the Jonathan Strong House remains a mystery. 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: 1513.187, 1318.381, 873.279, 862.95, 204.131