North side of Evergreen Road
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FORM B − BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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This building no longer exists. In its place is a
house.
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-1 Easthampton NTH.28
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: North side of Evergreen Road
Historic Name: Dimock Reservoir
Uses: Present: demolished
Original: reservoir structure
Date of Construction: 1873-1877
Source: Atlas and Water Department
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Moved: no | | yes | | Date
Acreage: 1 acre
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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [EVERGREEN ROAD]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.28
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
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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: “The ‘reservoir’ first appears on the 1884 Atlas. The Nonotuck Silk Co. is listed as the owner, and piping
laid under High Street (now Evergreen Road), Center Street (now Upland Road), Front Street, Grove Avenue, and Chestnut
Avenue connect the reservoir to at least one house on the hill, the two Grove Hill houses, the Main Street mill of Nonotuck Silk
Co., the mill of the Northampton Emory Wheel Co, and then finally to the Mill River. Notes in the margin of a map of city
waterlines in the area date the piping to 1877, and list the source as a spring (probably just west of Dimock Street).
By 1913 the City of Northampton had acquired this waterworks system from the Nonotuck Silk Co. In that year, they
proposed to build a standpipe to replace the old reservoir, to better serve the approximately fifty families who were supplied at
that time by the old system.”
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.