14-16 Cross 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
22D-82 Easthampton NTH.155
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State village
Address: 14-16 Cross Street
Historic Name: Nonotuck Silk Mills Workers’ Housing
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Two-family residence
Date of Construction: 1860-1873
Source: Map and Atlas
Style/Form: no style
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Carriage barn
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added ca. 1990.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.873 acre
Setting: This house faces north towards the Mill
River and the factories of Florence. Its neighborhood
consists of workers’ housing of various forms.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [14-16 CROSS STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.155
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This double house is one of several workers’s houses in the industrial sections of Northampton that have a two-and-a-half story
center section under a side-gable roof, five bays wide and with kitchen wings at each side. The wings are one-and-a-half
stories, are four bays wide, and are also under side-gable roofs. There are rear enclosed porches on the south elevation. Sash
in the house is 2/2, though the building has been vinyl sided and details have been lost. The entries to the two units are in the
center bay of the main block. They are beneath a hipped roof porch that rests on posts. Window and door surrounds are flat
stock, so the building has little ornament and was modest in design, but relatively generous in space.
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: “This double house was built on lot no. 12 of the 53-lot subdivision south of the Mill River opposite the
Nonotuck Silk Mills and the Greenville Mfg. Co. It first appears on the 1873 atlas and was owned by the Nonotuck Co.
throughout the 19th century.”
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.