14 Hancock 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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): June, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32A-217 Easthampton NTH.2102
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 14 Hancock Street
Historic Name: Jonas M. Clark House
Uses: Present: Single family residence
Original: Single family residence
Date of Construction: 1873-75
Source: Atlas and Directory
Style/Form: Italianate style
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Clapboard
Roof: Slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Side porch (early 20th century)
Dormer (late 20th century)
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.20 acres
Setting: House faces south onto a quiet residential street.
House located in a residential neighborhood of mid to late
19th century homes. Shrubs and plantings line the
foundation of the home. Mature trees are located
throughout the property.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [14 HANCOCK STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2102
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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 Italianate style home with front gable roof. The principal block of the house is three bays wide and
three bays deep. The house is clapboard sided and has a slate roof. Roof eaves make partial returns and beneath is an average
frieze. An arched Italianate style window with peaked lintel decorates the gable field. There is a multi-sided bay with a flat roof on
the western elevation. The front entry is marked by a pedimented Colonial Revival style portico with Tuscan columns, which was
likely a turn of the century alteration to the home. The house’s windows are two over two sash and have projecting lintels. There
is a two story addition rear ell and one-story enclose porch on the western elevation of the home. Since the home was first
inventoried in 1980, a dormer has been added to western slope of the roof. The house has at least one brick chimney which is
located on the western slope of the roof.
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: “Hancock Street was opened in 1873 across Ebenezar Hancock’s former Hawley Street estate. The
estate had been bought by James Arms, a co-owner of Arms and Bardwell Manufacturing Company, which was located on the
west side of Hawley Street near Holyoke Street and produced hoop skirts, pocketbooks and diaries. Lots were only available on
the north side of the street as that was all that Mr. Arms owned. By 1875, this house had been built, and was occupied by Jonas
M. Clark, superintendent of Northampton Water Works.”
Arnold Levinson owned the house in 2010.
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. 306-P. 111