South Street 192_196_Fort Street 3-17.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM A -AREA MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220MORRISSEY
BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Assessor’s Sheets USGS Quad Area Letter Form Numbers in Area 38B-174 38B-175 38B-176 38B-177 38B-178 38B-179 38B-180 38B-181 Easthampton
X NTH.1062 NTH.2487 NTH.2488 NTH.2489 NTH.2490 NTH.2491 NTH.2492 NTH.2493 Town: Northampton Place (neighborhood or village): South Street Name of Area: Lamb’s Cottages Present Use: Single
family residences Construction Dates or Period: 1870-1873 Overall Condition: good Major Intrusions and Alterations: Vinyl siding and vinyl windows, altered and enclosed front porches/porticos
Acreage: 0.64 acres Recorded by: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month/year): June, 2010 Topographic or Assessor's Map _X__ see continuation
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Continuation sheet 1 _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, structural
and landscape features and evaluate in terms of other areas within the community. This group of eight very small single family homes are located in a quiet residential neighborhood along
Fort Street that extends from South Street to Manhan Street. The small house at 192 South Street is one-and-one half stories tall with a slate front gable roof. The home is two bays
wide and two bays deep and has wood shingle cladding. The home’s vinyl windows are six over six sash, but the windows has retained their original flat stock surrounds. There is a single
window in the front gable field. The simple front entry has a glass and panel door and no porch cover. On the northern elevation of the home, there is a one story side wing with a hipped
roof that extends across the full-width of this elevation. A screened porch comprised the frontward portion of the side wing. Also on this elevation is a through-cornice dormer with
a shed roof and two small windows. On the eastern elevation of the home is a one story rear ell that also includes a screened porch. There is a small cinder block chimney on the rear
elevation of the home as well. The house has brick foundation. The house at 196 South Street is one of the two homes that are two-and-a-half stories in height with front gable slate
roofs. This home is three bays wide and three bays deep and is vinyl sided. All the windows have been replaced with one over one sashes. On the northern elevation, there is an Italianate
bay. Along the ridge of the roof, there is a deteriorating brick chimney. To the rear, there is a one-story rear ell. The house at 3 Fort Street is also one-and-one half stories tall
and two bays wide and two bays deep. This home has vinyl siding, an asphalt roof, and a brick foundation. Windows on this home have been altered to large and small single pane squares.
The home’s gabled front entry is supported by braces. There is a brick chimney on the rear eastern elevation of the home. The house at 5 Fort Street is one-and-one half stories tall
with a slate front gable roof. The home is two bays wide and two bays deep and has asbestos siding. The home’s vinyl windows are one over one sash, but the windows has retained their
original flat stock surrounds. The front façade features paired windows on the ground floor and gable field. A small brick chimney is located at the center of the roof along the ridgeline.
The home’s front entry is located on the eastern elevation of the home, and consists of a very small portico with front gable roof. There is a one story rear ell on the southern elevation.
The house at 11 Fort Street is one-and-one half stories tall and two bays wide and two bays deep. This home has vinyl vinyl siding, an asphalt roof, and a brick foundation. The home’s
original windows are present behind vinyl storm windows. The front façade features a full-width enclosed porch with a very low-pitched roof. The house at 13 Fort Street is one-and-one
half stories tall and two bays wide and two bays deep. This home has clapboard siding, a slate roof, and a brick foundation. The home’s original windows are present behind vinyl storm
windows. The front façade features a full-width screened porch with a low-pitched roof. There is a two story addition being added to the rear, southern elevation of the home. This property
also includes a small front gable garage. The house at 15 Fort Street is one of the two homes that are two-and-a-half stories in height with front gable slate roofs. This home is three
bays wide and three bays deep and is clapboard sided. At the center of the front façade, is a enclosed entry portico with pedimented roof. This house has retained its original two over
two sash windows. There is a center chimney along the ridge of the roof. The house at 17 Fort Street is also one-and-one-half stories tall with a slate front gable roof and clapboard
siding. The house has a brick center chimney along the ridge of the roof. An enclosed porch extends across the width of the front façade and the one-and-one-half story rear ell also
has a screened porch on the eastern elevation of the home. The one-and-one-half story rear ell is followed by a one-story addition. This house has retained its original two over two
sash windows.
Continuation sheet 2 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Explain historical development of the area. Discuss how this relates to the historical development of the community. From Form B of 1980: “During
the middle of the 19th century, land at the southwest corner of South and Fort Streets was owned by Martin and Edwin Clapp, farmers who lived at 202 and 206 South Street. At that time,
Fort Street was called Meadow Road and led through the Manhan Meadows to Old Springfield Road. During the early 1860’s, Horace Lamb, owner of a wire manufactory plant on the Mill River,
bought the land and had his house built here. About 1870, High Street (now Lyman Road) was opened off of South Street and Mr. Lamb had his residence moved there. Subsequently, he divided
the land at the corner of South and Fort Streets into small building lots. By 1873, these eight cottages had been constructed.” 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. 269-P. 360 11 Fort Street 13 Fort Street 5 Fort Street 3 Fort Street
Continuation sheet 3 15 Fort Street 17 Fort Street 196 South Street