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89 Federal Street Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph 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 30B-114 Easthampton NTH.444 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Village Address: 89 Federal Street Historic Name: Mill Superintendent’s House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1835 Source: maps of 1830 and 1860 Style/Form: Greek Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick, concrete Wall/Trim: flushboard and clapboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): North ells added, n.d. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.519 acres Setting: This building faces south towards the extant mill buildings. On its north are the high school playing fields. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [39 FEDERAL STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH. 444 _x__ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. The Mill Superintendent’s House is a one-and-a-half story, front-gable house whose south façade is flushboard sided. Its other elevations are clapboard sided, but the flushboard was a Greek Revival enhancement meant to convey the impression of stone, as in a Greek stone temple and to raise the house above the ordinary. Broad corner pilasters support a full entablature on e ast and west elevations, though the eaves do not make full returns in the front gable, allowing instead, three, full-height windows in that portion of the façade above a narrow stringcourse. The façade is three bays wide at the first story as well, with a side hall entry whose surround is architrave with a cornice crowning it. Window sash is replacement 6/6. The main block of the house is the equivalent of four bays deep, and there are two ells on the north of one and one-and-a-half stories. The second is on concrete foundations. This house is one of a number of early to mid-19th century buildings in the neighborhood. 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 Greek Revival house was probably built as the mill superintendent’s house. Rockwell Wilson and George Hoffman, both of whom served as superintendent of the nearby mill, lived here. The house and land was part of the paper mill property, which during the 1860’s consisted of ‘paper mill, store, eleven dwelling houses, and other buildings.’ T he holdings were extensive enough to warrant the name Paper Mill Village on the 1873 atlas, while the street was called Paper Mill Row in the 1873-74 directory. Vernon Street and Federal Street were originally known as Paper Mill Road and led from Elm Street to the paper mill at the confluence of the Mill River and Broughton Meadow Brook. A paper mill was established here by William Butler in 1786. Successive companies included: Northampton Papermills (1835-43), William Clark and Co. (1843-69), Vernon Paper Co. (1869- 86), and Northampton Paper Co. (1888-89). In 1889, the mill was transformed to manufacture cutlery.” 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. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [39 FEDERAL STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH. 444 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a Paper Mill Village Historic District for the industry that occupied the site on the Mill River from 1789 – 1889 and included a water power system, whose canal remains, as well as a boarding house for its workers at 111-117 Milton Street and the Mill Superintendent’s house at 122 Federal Street. Several properties not yet inventoried would contribute to the potential district as well. Subsequent history of the properties would develop further industrial uses and residences for those associated with the cutlery industry after 1889. The remains of a canal are important as part of a water power system that began in the late 18th century. Architecturally the buildings in this potential historic district represent Federal and Greek Revival and the common forms constructed for boarding houses, superintendents’ houses, single-family workers’ house and a paper mill.