South Street 85.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 31D-197 Easthampton NTH.1198 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 85 South Street Historic
Name: Edward Copeland House Uses: Present: Single family residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: 1892-1894 Source: Registry of Deeds and Directory Style/Form:
Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Vinyl, wood shingles Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Vinyl
siding (mid 20th century) Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.255 acres Setting: House located at the busy intersection of Old South and South Streets. 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 ] [85 SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1198 _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 Queen Anne style home with slate pyramidal roof from which projects
additional gables. This house typifies the transition that occurred within the Queen Anne style at the end of the 19th century as the style moved away from spindlework toward more classical
detailing, which parallels the emergence of the Colonial Revival style. The house is clad with vinyl siding on the first story and wood shingle on the second story. Characteristic of
the Queen Anne style, this home has multiple projections extending from its basic rectilinear shape. The front of the house features a three story bay topped by a tall curved roof. A
stacked porch extends across the full width of the front façade and wraps around to the southern elevation. The hipped roof porch has fluted columns, solid frieze, balustrade with turned
balusters, and latticed apron. A pedimented gable marks the front entry above which is a hipped roof porch with matching fluted columns, frieze and balustrade. On the right side of the
glass and paneled front door is a large multicolored stained glass window. Another prominent feature on the front of the home is the projecting front gable on the northern side of the
front façade. The gable field is ornamented by wavy clapboard siding and within the gable field is a very shallow two bay oriel with shallow gable. On the southern elevation of the home
is a two-two-story bay with chamfered corners capped by a jettied gable roof. On the northern elevation, there is a shallow two story wing topped by a gable and a shallow one story wing
with flat roof. Extending from the western elevation of the home is a two story rear ell with a hipped roof. The houses window’s are in varying sizes, Most original windows have been
replaced with vinyl and are one over one sash. The house has a brick foundation. There is one brick chimney on the southern slope of the roof 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 1980: “In 1892, Edward Copeland bought a parcel of land at the northwest corner of South and School Streets. Until the previous year, when a new school was built, this had
been the site of a city school. As a matter of fact, both corners of South and School Streets had had schools, apparently both very small. Mr. Copeland was the owner of ‘Copeland’s Bazar,
Emporium of Fashion’ on Main Street, which featured ‘stamping in every Variety, Satins Sateens, Fringes, Germantowns, Flosses, Corsets, Gloves, Ties, Scarfs, Laces, Fans, Baskets, and
an unlimited assortment of Fancy Goods and Notions.” 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. 454-P.
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