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37 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 32B-214 Easthampton NTH.2099 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 37 Butler Place Historic Name: Joel Haynes House Uses: Present: five-unit house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1892-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: parged Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.23 acres Setting: This house faces north on a short, tree-shaded street. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [37 BUTLER PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2099 __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 one of the few Queen Anne style houses on Butler Place and is a well-preserved example of the style. It is a two-and-a- half story house with a front-gabled roof. There is a relatively shallow transverse gable bay on the east elevation to give the house added complexity of volume. It is a simple three bays wide but a stacked porch that wraps around from north to east elevations adds to the building’s visual complexity – a Queen Anne style feature. On the north façade the porch is one bay wide and has a pediment over its entry topped by a second story of porch under a shed roof. At first floor level it is supported by turned posts; at second floor level by square posts. The turned posts are unusual in form and not among the stock turnings offered at the time by lumberyards. They rise from paneled pedestals on a solid shingle railing. Brackets at the porch and main eaves add Queen Anne details to the house, but rather than simply scroll cut, they have a drilled design that is found more often in late Queen Anne. The house is clapboard-sided in first and second stories and ornamented with varied shingle profiles on the main gable, porch pediment and second story porch railings. 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, “In 1892 Butler Place was opened through the Butler estate on Hawley Street. Lots were sold for residential development and by 1895 seven of the present ten houses were built. An 1895 article in the Gazette on the recent development in the city mentioned, “several examples of art in architecture” on the street. This was one of the first houses built on the street and seems to have been built for Joel Haynes, a milk contractor. In 1880 Haynes was working in Cambridge in the milk business then moved here to Northampton. He and his wife Louise had moved to New South Street by 1916 where he continued working as a milk agent. The Haynes were followed in the house by George F. and Minnie Walz who ran a bakery on Bridge Street. The Walzs were German immigrants who established the bakery and ran it together with one of their two daughters. The second daughter was a stenographer and a son was in school. Like many families in Northampton at the time, older children remained at home to work until they established families of their own and even then they might remain living in the family home. The Walz family, however, was followed in the house in 1937 by Louise and Bernard O’Shea. Bernard was president and treasurer of a business known as OSP-The Music House. These two families represent the many who lived on Butler Place and owned, managed or worked in downtown Northampton businesses. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Daily Hampshire Gazette, November 30, 1895. 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. Registry of Deeds: Book 450 Page 310; Book 448 page 259. 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] [37 BUTLER PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2099 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. The Haynes 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.