Willow Street 21.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 Please see attached map. Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: PVPC Date (month /year):
October, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 23C-077 Easthampton NTH.248 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State in Florence Address: 21 Willow
Street Historic Name: Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1874-1884 Source: Atlases of 1874 and 1884 Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Window openings
of front bay window have been made smaller, ca. 1970. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.107 acres Setting: This house is in a neighborhood of 19th century houses
with a few lots of 20th century houses as infill. It is a tree-shaded, narrow street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [21 WILLOW STREET ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.248 ___ 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 one of the best-preserved houses in the Bay State neighborhood of Florence. It is a two-and-a-half
story Queen Anne style house under a side-gable roof with a transverse front gable. It has a corner porch on turned posts with brackets at the eaves. The transverse gable section of
the house has a three-sided bay window on its north façade and there is an unusual rounded bay bay window on the west elevation. The house has retained its visually lively exterior surface
with clapboards on the first floor and wood shingles of varying patterns separating stories and ornamenting gable ends. Between first and second stories are wavy shingles and in the
gable ends are scalloped and sawtooth shingles. Stringcourses separate the materials. There is one interior chimney in the house and its roof has boxed eaves without returns. There is
a Queen Anne style multipaned door and a similar window at the second story over the porch. Sash in the house is largely 1/1. At the attic level of the transverse gable bay are 9-light
fixed windows with hooded lintels. 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 the Form B of 1976, “Between 1854 and 1860 a bridge was constructed across the Mill River near the silk and cotton
mills of Florence. This opened up land on the southern side of the river for residential development. A subdivision plan was prepared and streets laid out. By 1873 Bridge (now Bliss)
and Water (now Willow) Streets and their connector (now Scanlon Street) had been laid out, along with 53 lots and nearly 30 residences. The land had been owned by the Nonotuck Silk Company
and many of the dwellings housed workers for this company or one of Florence’s other industries. By the end of the 19th century this had become a small neighborhood.” 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [21 WILLOW STREET ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.248