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42-44 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-204 Easthampton NTH.2093 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 42-44 Butler Place Historic Name: Uses: Present: 6-unit house Original: two-family house Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: atlases Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: fair-poor Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.211 acres Setting: This is a south-facing house with one of the street’s early maple trees in front. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [42-44 BUTLER PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2093 _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 largest houses on Butler Place, built as an ample two-family, Colonial Revival style building. It is two-and-a- half stories under a truncated hipped roof with transverse gable bays on the east and west and a pair of three sided bays beneath polygonal roof at each side of its south façade. Between the two south bays is a two story porch that rests on Doric columns and paneled pedestals. A hipped dormer separates them on the south roof. This is a configuration also used for the two-family house on Butler Place at 19-21. The transverse gable bays on east and west are separated between first and second stories by horizontal panels, not unlike those found at 22 Butler Place. In their gable fields are scalloped shingles and an arched window centered in each. There are shed roof dormers on both east and west sides of the roof. 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 1980, “This is one of two duplex houses on Butler Place, a street opened off of Hawley Street in 1892. By 1915 all of the present ten houses had been constructed and the street maintains its turn-of-the-century character today. This is particularly enhanced by the line of Maple trees on both sides of the street”. Charles and Clara Sawyer were among the early residents of 42 Butler Place. Charles was assistant Postmaster and worked in the nearby Northampton Post Office. The Sawyers continued to occupy the house through 1937 and were among the many people who were long-term residents of this stable neighborhood. At 44 Butler Place in 1917 Carl W. Howe lived and he worked in downtown Northampton as a Woolworth’s manager. Howe had been replaced in the house by 1937 by Josephine and Earl O’Brien. Earl ran a garage selling gas and tires. 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. 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] [42-44 BUTLER PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2093 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.