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Jewett Street 5.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: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year): April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31A-121-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 5 Jewett Street Historic Name: Oriville W. Prouty House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1910 Source: Sanborn Insurance maps Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: wood shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2010; wing added ca. 1950. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.258 acres Setting: This house faces south on a short residential street. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [5 Jewett Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH. __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 house with a pyramidal hipped roof and a center chimney. This is a house form that was very popular in Northampton at the turn-of-the-century. There are cross-gables on the south façade and the east elevation giving the house a more complex floor plan. Added to the house is a one-story, shed roofed wing on the east. In the angle formed formed by the two cross-gables, the house has a hipped roof, wraparound porch supported by turned Queen Anne posts connected by railings with turned balusters. Fenestration of the house reflects its late date with a picture window in the south cross-gabled bay on the first floor and a tripartite window on the second story. 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. Jewett Street had been constructed by 1895 but there were no houses on it at the time. Between 1895 and 1910 the street took much of the appearance it has today including this house that was owned by Oriville W. Prouty who was president of the Nonotuck Savings Bank in 1920. Prouty remained in the house through 1930 as he also remained president of the bank. But in 1940 the house was owned by Mabel and Walter Denny. Walter was an optician working in Northampton and the couple remained here through 1950. 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 ] [5 Jewett Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH. National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a potential historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side streets laid out on the south side of Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of the development of Northampton from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for attendance at Smith College, and the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a shift from gentlemen’s estates to accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers. According to criterion C this district would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles are all well-represented within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time.