71 Florence 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
11C-40 Easthampton NTH.43
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 71 Florence Street
Historic Name: John Tunnicliff House
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: 1867-1873
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Gothic Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | | yes | | Date
Acreage: 2.4 acres
Setting: This house is in a residential neighborhood with
an elementary school on the opposite side of the street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [71 FLORENCE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.43
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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 an exceptional example of the Gothic Revival style. It is a one-and-a-half story house with a steeply-pitched, front-gable
roof that has paired brackets at its wide eaves. It has cross-gables on east and west and a one-and-a-half story ell on the south
with a side porch. The house is flushboard sided on the first story and clapboard-sided on the second story, and is preceded on
the north by a porch that wraps from north to east and west. The porch is supported on slender posts that have Gothic braces at
the eaves. The north façade is three bays wide with a side hall entry whose architrave surround is a Gothic three-point arch
flanked by arched sidelights. At the second story windows have unique lintels that are concave pediments that end in sharp
peaks. At the attic level is a rondel window. On the east elevation an angled bay window is at first story level on the cross
gable, and there is a two-story ell on the south.
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: “John Tunnicliff bought 3 1/3 acres on the south side of Florence Street in 1867. Mr. Tunnicliff was
employed at the Critchlow Ivory Button Co., later known as the Mill River Button Company, in Leeds Village. The present house
was constructed before 1873, and after John’s death, it was lived in by William Tunnicliff, a machinist employed first at the
Crichlow Co., and later at Northampton Emory Wheel Co.
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.
Registry of Deeds: Bk. 243-P.400