11 Corticelli 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
22B-29 Easthampton NTH.147
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 11 Corticelli Street
Historic Name: Mrs. Hawkes House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1860-1873
Source: Map and Atlas
Style/Form: Italianate with Queen Anne Porch
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Shed
Major Alterations (with dates):
Wing added, ca. 1990.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.325 acre
Setting: This house faces west in a neighborhood of
single-family homes from the 19th century.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [11 CORTICELLI STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
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NTH.147
_x__ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
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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 a one-and-a-half story, front-gable house that is three bays wide and four bays deep and is almost identical to the house
at 25 Corticelli Street. The asphalt shingled roof has thinly boxed eaves that make no returns, a feature of houses built in the
early 1870s, many of which are Italianate in style. Sash in the house is 2/2 and it has a center stove chimney. Across the west
façade is a Queen Anne style porch on turned posts with brackets at the eaves. This porch is of later date than the house
suggesting it was an addition or replacement. There is a one-story, shed-roofed wing on the south elevation added in the 20th
century. This house is well-maintained and represents the high level of workers’ housing built in Florence in the 1870s, being
modest, but constructed to last.
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 Form B of 1980: “In 1859, Isaac Parsons et al. filed a subdivision plan for part of Park Street, and Meadow and Prospect
Streets. Prospect Street was located atop the eastern terrace of the Mill River and had a fine view westward across the
Florence Meadows. By 1873, the street had been mostly built up with cottages for the workers of the Florence Mfg. Co. or the
Nonotuck Silk Mills, both nearby on the Mill River.”
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 Count y, 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: Bk. 188-P. 398 and 399, 202-89 and 90
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [11 CORTICELLI STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
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NTH.147
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 historic district, the Corticelli Street Historic District. Historically, this
street of houses was constructed to serve the workers of Florence in the Silk Mills, the Florence Sewing Machine
Company, and the Florence Manufacturing Company. A narrative of their occupants is a narrative of immigrants,
laborers and their families that made up the 19th and 20th century history of Florence.
Architecturally, this house is significant as a fine example of the quality of workers’ housing in Florence and of the
housing built by workers themselves in the latest styles with plenty of decorative features. Between 1860 and 1884
the Gothic Revival, Italianate and Queen Anne styles were applied to virtually the same form building. The district
has integrity of workmanship, materials, feeling, setting and design.