29 Edwards Square
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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
31B-82 Easthampton NTH.611
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 29 Edwards Square
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: unknown
Date of Construction: c. 1870
Source: map of 1873
Style/Form: utilitarian
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: brick, clapboard
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Dormer added ca. 1930.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.133 acres
Setting: This building is set near the railroad tracks on its
east side. It is in a neighborhood of later 19th century
residences.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [29 EDWARD’S SQUARE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.611
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This is a small brick building of one-and-a-half stories. It is one room deep and two bays wide. Its main architectural ornament
is brick corbelling in the eaves rake. There is a hood resting on braces over the main entry and sash in the house is 1/1. A
through-cornice dormer with clapboard siding appears to have been added to the building ca. 1930. Despite its small size, the
house has a chimney at each end. The 1980 attribution of a date in the 1830s is unwarranted, as utilitarian buildings with similar
corbelling were built through the 19th century.
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 small brick house predates all others on Edwards Square. The street was laid out across the Breck
and Whitney estates by Charles Stevens, a local developer. The 1873 Atlas shows this house in the rear of the Breck house at
the corner of King and Edwards (now North) Streets. It does not show on the earlier maps. However, stylistically the house
seems to date from an earlier period, and is probably related to the Whitney house, a brick Greek Revival house which stood
next south of the corner house. Thus, the small house probably dates from the 1830s.”
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.