35 East Center 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
11A-34 Easthampton NTH.36
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Leeds
Address: 35 East Center Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original:
Date of Construction: 1873-84
Source: atlases of 1873 and 1884
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Garage and porch added on west, ca. 1980.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 1 acre
Setting: House faces north on a large lot that slopes down
to the east in a neighborhood of 19th and 20th century
houses.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [35 EAST CENTER STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.36
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
Like its neighbor at 32 East Center Street, this is a vernacular Italianate house. Its plan is somewhat more complex as it has a
two-and-a-half story front-gabled section with a two-and-a-half story wing on the east and a one-and-a-half story wing on the
west for a T-shaped plan. The roof has moderately wide Italianate eaves and an arched window in the front-gable section. Both
the front-gable section and the larger wing are two bays wide. In their angle is a porch on chamfered posts on high pedestals
and there are brackets at the eaves for ornament. There is a three-sided bay window on the east elevation and it also has
brackets at its eaves. An added garage and porch across the smaller west wing is supported on heavy posts.
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: “East Center Street is pat of the 1870’s subdivision that Nonotuck Silk Co. developed atop the hill
northeast of the village of Leeds. By 1884 six houses had been built on this street, including this one, which was listed as
belonging to Frederick Yeatman, a carpenter with the Mill River Button Co., one of Leed’s main businesses.”
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.