Loading...
9-11 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-210 Easthampton NTH.2097 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 9-11 Butler Place Historic Name: Uses: Present: two-family house Original: two-family house Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.17 acres Setting: This house is set close to the street in alignment with its neighbors. It has a mature maple tree in its front yard. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [9-11 BUTLER PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2097 __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 several two-family houses on Butler Place and although its condition is fair, it has retained its architectural features and forms well, as others have not. This is a Queen Anne style house, two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof with two transverse gabled bays on the east and west elevations. The house is four bays wide with a three-sided bay and a pair of 1/1 sash windows, followed by two entry doors that are sheltered by a two-story porch. The porch is supported by turned posts and its railings have fine, square balusters. The three-sided bay rises to a front-gabled, pedimented roof whose square corners extend beyond sides of the bay on the façade. This same design is repeated on the transverse gable bay on the east elevation. The house is the equivalent of 6 bays long for a rectangular plan. There is a one-bay garage in the rear yard. 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 two-family residence was constructed around 1900. Butler Place had been opened in 1898 across the Butler homestead. By this time a number of other streets had opened easterly from Hawley St. and the character of the area had changed since the first subdivisions in the late 1840s. This street has a number of finely detailed, two-family and duplex houses. Even though the area would no longer boast of housing the City’s elite, the housing stock continued at a quality level.” The increase in housing and popularity of two-family housing was due in part to the growth of Northampton’s population by 113.1% between 1870 and 1915. Homesteads were subdivided, streets put in and this neighborhood, close to the city’s commercial center expanded in a suburban manner with large houses set on relatively small lots, close to the street. Their long, rather narrow lots encouraged rectangular house forms. The neighborhood was long home to residents who worked in the businesses and institutions of downtown Northampton. In 1917 in 9 Butler Place were Horace and Mary Dragon, their two daughters and a second cousin. Horace was a French Canadian who worked downtown as a salesman in the Clark Merritt Clothier store. In 11 Butler Place Leo and Hattie Porter had moved from their home at 36 Butler Place, which they had had designed and built by Northampton architects Putnam and Bayley. This move to a smaller house reflected Leo’s retirement from his business. In 1937 the Dragons were followed by Elizabeth and Charles Byron. Charles was one of the few people who lived this far from campus while working at Smith College. He was a Smith College foreman. At 11 Mary and Paul Borowski lived. Paul was a carpenter. 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 FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [9-11 BUTLER PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2097 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.