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34 Corticelli Street 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): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 22B-39 Easthampton NTH.150 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 34 Corticelli Street Historic Name: Florence Manufacturing Company House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1860-1873 Source: atlases Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.32 acre Setting: This is an east-facing house that sits on a crest above the Mill River on its west. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [34 CORTICELLI STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.150 __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 a well-preserved Gothic Revival style house built as workers’ housing but with more stylistic features than many similar houses. It is one-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gabled roof that is thinly boxed, wide and has no returns. Three bays wide and four bays deep it has a wrap around side porch on the south and west that is supported on turned posts with brackets at its eaves. The entry is side-hall and is sheltered by a hood on Gothic Revival-inspired trefoil shaped braces. Windows have hooded lintels on brackets. In the gable of the east elevation is a King Post truss ornament, often used in the contemporary Stick Style. Windows on the second floor are grouped beneath a single lintel in Gothic style. 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: “Prospect Street was laid out between 1859 and 1861 along the top of the western terrace of the Mill River. The ‘prospect’ was a fine view of the Florence meadows extending westerly and northerly. By 1873, most of the street had been developed with small cottages. Most of them were individually owned, but a few had been erected by two local industries, the Nonotuck Silk Company and the Florence Mfg. Company.” 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: Bk. 188-P. 389 and 399, 202-89 and 90 INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [34 CORTICELLI STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.150 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 Corticelli Street Historic District as it contributes to the street of typical 19th century workers’ housing of Florence. Company-built, privately-built, this street of houses was laborer-occupied from the 1860s through to the 20th century. Architecturally, it is representative of the modest houses built in the Gothic Revival, Stick Style and Queen Anne that were current at the time of their construction by local builders who managed to use stock trim in novel ways and set each building apart from its neighbors. They have been well-preserved and the street has retained its semi-rural setting that existed when it was first laid out in the 1860s. The potential district has integrity of materials, design, setting, feeling, association and workmanship. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [34 CORTICELLI STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 3 NTH.150 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.