12 East 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
38B-110 Easthampton NTH.1029
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 12 East Street
Historic Name: J. H. Maloney House
Uses: Present: Two-family house
Original:
Date of Construction: 1896
Source: Gazette 1/6/1896
Style/Form: formerly Shingle Style
Architect/Builder: Putnam & Bayley
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl siding
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Carriage barn
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding and replacement windows added ca. 2000.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.184 acres
Setting: This house occupies a corner lot in a
neighborhood of turn-of-the-century houses.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [12 East Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.1029
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Maloney House began as a Shingle Style house, but with the application of vinyl siding, its fundamental stylistic character
has been lost. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a side gable, slate roof that extends on the west to create a porch in
bungalow fashion. The house is three bays wide and four bays deep. The porch, enclosed on north and south sides has half-
length columns resting on a solid railing. In the end gables of the house there are jetties between both the attic/second story
and second/first stories. There is a large front-gable dormer centered on the west roof and a small pediment marks the location
of the stairs on to the porch. The house has a two-story, shed-roofed porch on the south elevation that is open at the first floor
level and enclosed at the second story. It is supported on columns and set beneath the attic jetty.
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 the Form B of 1976, “The shingle style residence was built in 1896 for J. H. Maloney and designed by Putnam and Bayley,
local architects. The first shingle style residence in Northampton was designed by Putnam and Bayley in 1893 for Judge
Hammond; this was a full decade after the early shingle projects of H. H. Richardson and McKim, Mead, and White. It relates to
other, earlier Queen Anne residences on Munroe and Columbus Streets as well as to Putnam’s own Shingle style residence on
Columbus Avenue.”
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.