South Street 294-296.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 38D-2 Easthampton NTH.1080 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 294 & 296 South Street
Historic Name: Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: Pre-1750 Source: visual evidence Style/Form: First Period /Georgian Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: Cement covered Wall/Trim: Vinyl Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Front porch added (20th century) Vinyl
siding added (post 1980) Chimney altered and removed (Unknown & post 1980) Windows replaced (20th century) Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.122 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] [294 & 296 SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1080 _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 side gabled home that it is three bays wide and one bay deep. This house exhibits
features of First Period construction although it was mostly likely constructed during the Georgian Period. First Period residences typically had a garrison overhang between the first
and second stories (and sometimes between the second and attic stories), steeply pitched gable-end roofs with little to no eaves, and large central chimneys that were often in clustered
shapes. This house has these features minus the large central chimney. Form B from 1976 showed that the house had a chimney at its center but it would have been too small to still be
considered a large central chimney. Form B notes that the chimney that existed in the late 1970s was not the original. This house also has very small windows that sit close to the roof
eaves, which was also a feature of very early homes. Current windows have one over one replacement sash. It is unknown if the foundation is fieldstone or brick because it is covered
by cement. The enclosed porch was added during the early to mid twentieth century according to Form B from 1976. At the rear, the roof slope continues to include a one-room deep “lean-to”.
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 dwelling is located on South Street in the vicinity of three similar colonial structures.” 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.