78 Hawley 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
32C-228-001 Easthampton NTH.2528
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 78 Hawley Street
Historic Name: W. F. Parker House
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: pre-1873
Source: map of 1873
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.154 acres
Setting: This house occupies a corner lot in a mixed
commercial/residential neighborhood.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [78 Hawley Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2528
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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 house with a front-gable roof. Three bays wide and four bays long the main block
of the house has an angled bay window on the south elevation, a full-width porch across the west façade and a cross-gable bay
on the north. There is a two-and-a-half and a one-story ell on the east elevation and a side porch on the south extending
beneath a shed roof from the larger of the two ells. The clapboard-sided house has a pointed window in its west façade gable
field, a window form that was repeated well into the 1890s in Northampton houses. Window sash is replacement 4/4.
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 1970: “Hawley Street was one of the first streets in Northampton and homesteads were established here
during the 17th century. A brook ran along the western side of the street, limiting residential development to the eastern side.
Many of these homesteads remained in the same family for generations, and it wasn’t until the early 19th century that there was
much subdivision of the original lots.”
In 1873 the house was owned by W. F. Parker and was set closely to a house on the north occupied by J. C. Arms. In 1884 the
two houses were still closely set and this house appears to have been that of H. C. Hallett. Henry C. Hallett was a
superintendent in a silk mill and later the B and B Company, and he and his wife Francis lived here with their two sons, Henry
and Charles. Henry, Sr. in 1895 ran a bicycle shop from the property, one of seven dealers in Northampton. In 1908 the
Halletts were still in the house and continued selling bicycles.
In 1926 the house was vacant.
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.
Northampton Street Directories, 1915-1926.
Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884.
Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.