25 Cherry Street
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FORM B − BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Topographic or Assessor's Map
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Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32A-042 Easthampton NTH.2017
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 25 Cherry Street
Historic Name: Louis Remillard House
Uses: Present:
Original:
Date of Construction: ca. 1830
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form:
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation:
Wall/Trim:
Roof:
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Studio and garden shed
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: fair
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.225 acres
Setting: Set sideways on its lot, this house has a large
open space in front and a garden area on the south.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [25 Cherry Street]
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This is a one-and-a-half story, raised Cape that is set sideways on its lot like its neighbor at 9 Cherry Street. It is a side-gable
roof that is slate-covered and a center chimney. The clapboard-sided house has had its façade fenestration altered so that it is
now asymmetrical with three openings and blind center bay. The house is two bays deep and has clipped gable ends. It has
cornerboards and flat stock window surrounds. A wing on the south elevation is composed of two parts: a one-and-a-half story
section with a one-story attached section on the west. A full width porch is on the west façade of the main block of the house. It
has turned posts and brackets at the eaves and a square baluster railing, so is likely a Queen Anne addition as are the 2/2
window sash. On the larger wing is a shed roof dormer. A novelty-sided studio and a potting shed are in the 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, “Cherry and Union Streets were laid out during the 1820s through the Colonial homestead on Market
Street. These homesteads had extended easterly to the burying ground and both of these streets did likewise. The 1831 map
shows four houses on each street, and this house is probably shown. The house was owned by absentee landlords until the
early 1890s when Louis Remillard, a blacksmith, purchased the house and made it his homestead. “
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.
Registry of Deeds: Book 449, Page 80; Book 112, Page 70; Book 88 page 218; book 74 page 497; Book 74 page 490.
Northampton Directories; 1860-61; 1873-74; 1885-86; 1895-96.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [25 Cherry Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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