16 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: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32A-218-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 16 Hancock Street
Historic Name: Guido and Arcangela Zanone House
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1920
Source: Northampton Street Directories and Sanborn
Insurance maps Style/Form: Prairie Style
Architect/Builder: Guido Zanone, mason, attr.
Exterior Material:
Foundation: not visible
Wall/Trim: stucco
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows replaced, ca. 2005.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.103 acres
Setting: This house faces south on a quiet,
residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [16 Hancock Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This Prairie Style masonry house is two-and-a-half stories in height under a hipped roof that has wide eaves. Characteristic of
the style, it is asymmetrical in elevation with a band of windows at the second story set off-center and not in alignment with the
band of first story windows. The house’s south facade is two bays wide with a side porch on battered stucco posts adjacent to
the band of windows. The heavy and geometric porch has a hipped roof and solid stucco railings. On the west elevation an
exterior wall chimney laces through the roof eaves. In a departure from the highest style versions of the Prairie style, this house
has a centered, hipped roof dormer on its south façade, which somewhat changes the horizontality that the style aimed for.
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 a Form B of 1980: “Hancock Street was opened in 1873, across Ebenezar Hancock’s Hawley Street homestead, but lots
were only available on the northern side of the street.” From the street directories of Northampton, it appears that this house
was first owned by a mason, Guido Zanone and his wife Arcangela. The Zanones were still in the house in 1935 and it is likely
that Guido had a role in its masonry construction.
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.