56 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
Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32A-31 Easthampton NTH.2015
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 56 Cherry Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: single-family house
Original: single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1884
Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: no style
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): Sided with vinyl, windows
replaced and porch altered ca. 2000.
Condition: good
Moved: no | | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.104 acres
Setting: This house is on a short residential street in a
neighborhood of mainly 19th century buildings.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [56 Cherry Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
Since it was first surveyed in 1980 this house has lost most of its character beneath a layer of vinyl siding and vinyl windows.
Previously a Stick Style house it now has only its jerkin head roof to identify its stylistic origins. The house is two-and-a-half
stories in height under a front-gable roof. It has transverse gables on east and west, both of which have jerkin head roofs. The
porch has been altered so that square posts replace chamfered Italianate posts and the ornamental railing has been replaced by
a conventional railing that requires no mortise and tenon work.
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.
Cherry and Union Streets were laid out during the 1820s through several 18th century homesteads on Market Street. The early
homesteads had extended from Market Street easterly to the burying ground and both of these streets did likewise. The 1831
map shows four houses on Cherry Street, but by 1860 there were fourteen houses, one of which was on this lot, but its owner
unnamed. This house seems first to appear in 1884 as a house on the estate of J. Herbert. In 1895 it was owned by D.
Sullivan.
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.