18 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): April, 2011
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32A-219-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 18 Hancock Street
Historic Name: Jonas M. and Hattie (Elizabeth) Clark
House Uses: Present: Two-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1880
Source: 1880 census
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added, porch stacked, windows replaced, 1920-
2005.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.121 acres
Setting: This house faces south on a quiet, residential
street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [18 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 is a Queen Anne style house, two-and-a-half stories in height and gable-and-wing in plan. The gable section of the house
is one bay wide and has an angled bay window at the first story. The wing on the east is also two-and-a-half stories in height
and has a jerkin head roof. In the angle between the two sections is a three-story tower under a pyramidal hipped roof. A porch
on posts with brackets at the eaves wraps around the tower. It was given a second story, probably at the time the house was
converted from a one-family to a two-family house. There is a two-story ell on the north elevation of the house and it has a side
porch that rests on posts. Windows in the house have been replaced with vinyl 1/1 sash.
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 Hawley Street homestead, but lots
were only available on the northern side of the street. “ This house first appears on the map of 1884 as J. M. Clark and the
census of 1880 places Jonas and Hattie Clark on the street. Jonas was Superintendent of the Northampton Water Works and
he and Hattie lived here with their daughter Abby. Jonas died in 1893. The house on the map of 1895 is listed as owned by
Mrs. E. E. Clark, presumably Hattie was a nickname for Elizabeth. Elizabeth Clark disappears from the directories after 1895.
By 1915 the house had been divided into a two-family and was occupied by Mrs. Nellie Cushing and Hans and Mary Goldstaub.
Goldstaub was employed at the Belding Hemenway silk manufactory. In 1935 the house was owned by Rudolph and Mary Arel.
Rudolph was a sign painter. The Arels shared it with Mrs. Sybyl Mariz who was a widow of Herbert Mariz.
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.