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19-21 Butler Place Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month / year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-212 Easthampton NTH.2098 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 19-21 Butler Place Historic Name: Uses: Present: three-family house Original: two-family house Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: atlases Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): conversion to three-family, n.d. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.222 acres Setting: Placed mid-way on this short street, the house is shaded by mature trees. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [19-21 BUTLER PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2098 __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. A rather simple version of the Colonial Revival style, this house is among the least-altered of the Butler Place buildings. It is a two-and-a-half story, shingle-sided house with a side-gable roof. It has transverse gable bays at each side of its three-bay north façade. The transverse gable bays become three-sided bays below their front-gabled roofs. Between the two bays at the first floor level is a centered, double leaf door. At the second floor level are two windows with 1/1 sash. In the gable fields are 6/2 window sashes. The north façade is traversed by a full-width porch on Doric columns with a square baluster railing and a small center pediment over the entry stairs. Although this is a two-family house, the single entry door and broad porch give it a single-family appearance. 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. According to the Form B of 1980, “Butler Place was opened in 1892 through the old Butler homestead on Hawley Street. By 1895 seven of the present ten houses had been constructed. The other three, all double houses, were constructed early in the twentieth century and the street today still maintains its turn-of-the-century character, enhanced particularly by the rows of fine Maple trees.” Among the early occupants of this two-family house were Homer and Lula Miller at #19. Homer worked in downtown Northampton as a clothing salesman. In #21 were John and Anna Murphy, their daughter and a lodger. John was a second generation Irishman and worked as a railroad engineer. Anna was a second generation German. Their lodger Katherine McCarthy worked as a domestic at a Northampton boarding school. Northampton’s schools were an important part of the City’s economy, but most of the people who lived in this neighborhood worked in downtown Northampton in its stores and institutions and at the nearby railroad. By 1937 #19 was occupied by Cora and Albert Deacon. Albert worked in Easthampton. In #21 were Elizabeth and Albert Lamson. Albert was a railroad man like John Murphy had been and was the assistant baggage master at Union Depot. 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 Count y, 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 FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [19-21 BUTLER PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2098 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 house would contribute to a potential Pomeroy Terrace historic district that developed south and east of the Bridge Street Cemetery from the second third of the 19th century as Northampton’s finest residential district. Original residents here were merchants, retired farmers, lawyers, and other professions. As the century progressed the adjacent streets were laid out for the growing middle class with railroad personnel joining clerks, teachers, and others. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the fine examples of the 19th century architectural styles from the Greek and Gothic Revivals, Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. The district includes significant examples of the work of Northampton architect William Fenno Pratt. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.