43 Finn 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
24D-202 Easthampton NTH.337
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 43 Finn Street
Historic Name: Dignon-Boudway House
Uses: Present: Three-family residence
Original: Two-family house
Date of Construction: 1884-1885
Source: Registry of Deeds & Directory
Style/Form: Stick Style
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Sided, some windows replaced, ca. 1960 and 1990.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.309 acres
Setting: This is a residential neighborhood on the edge of
a commercial district and has heavy traffic on Finn Street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [43 FINN STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.337
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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 two-and-a-half story house with a front-gable roof. The main block of the house is three bays wide and the equivalent of
four bays deep and there are two rear ells both two-and-a-half stories but lower in height. It is a modest house stylistically with a
full-width porch on the south façade with posts connected by arched braces and respondent pilasters on the façade. There is a
variation of a King Post truss in the front gable giving the building its Stick Style identity. The asbestos siding possibly covers
additional features of the Stick Style.
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: “In 1884, Hammond and Sullivan, two prominent, local real estate developers, filed a subdivision plan for
Warfield Place and the north side of Spring Street (now Finn Street). Later that year, they sold lots no. 9 and 10 to Ellen Dignon
for $800. The house was built soon thereafter as the 1885-86 Directory lists Joseph Boudway, co-owner of a Main Street
grocery and fish market, as living here. Mrs. Dignon, widow of Thomas, also lived here.
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.