South Street 250.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-272 Easthampton NTH.1075 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 250 South Street Historic
Name: Perry Brown House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Sing-family residence Date of Construction: 1911 Source: Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Two story carriage house Major Alterations (with dates):
Asbestos sided added mid 20th century and removed after 1980 Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | | Date Acreage: 0.159 acre Setting: House sits on a corner lot 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] [250 SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1075 __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 Colonial Revival style house with pyramidal roof and pyramidal dormers.
This house exhibits classical features such as fluted corner pilasters, frieze beneath the overhanging roof eaves, pedimented front porch gable, and fluted square porch pillars. At the
same time, this house also exhibits whimsical elements such as the decorative brackets at the eaves and floral design within the front porch tympanum. Additional Colonial Revival features
include the paired and triple windows with architrave surrounds as well as a picture window with leaded transom. The house has a brick foundation and the front porch has a solid brick
base. On the northern elevation of the house is a through-cornice chimney and bay window. On the eastern elevation of the house, there is a back porch with features matching the front
porch. The property includes a two-story carriage barn with fluted pilasters. 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: “This house was built for Perry Brown in 1911 at a cost
of $8000. Mr. Brown was an agent from Boston and Springfield Dispatch Express Co. and later became postmaster.” BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire
Massachusetts, 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. 644-P. 390 and 391