670 Haydenville Road (formerly 666)
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FORM B − BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
06-01-001 Easthampton NTH.5
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 670 Haydenville Road (formerly 666)
Historic Name: Widow Johnson Residence
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: ca. 1840
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Greek Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: clapboards and vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: fair/good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.696
Setting: This house is set back slightly from the road on a
raised lot behind two low embankments.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [670 HAYDENVILLE ROAD]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.5
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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 Greek Revival style house that has had numerous alterations although its form and several architectural features
remain to identify its style. It is a two-and-a-half story, vinyl-sided house with a front-gable roof that makes returns to form a
projecting pediment that is supported on four fluted Doric columns. The columns support a full entablature consisting of
architrave, frieze and cornice that surrounds the house at the roofline. Corner pilasters frame the main block of the building as
well. The house’s east façade is three bays wide and has a sidehall entry. Windows of both the first and second stories have
been made smaller and aluminum 1/1 sash has been inserted, giving the fenestration a non-traditional appearance.
Additionally, a round arch window has been inserted in the pediment. The house has two wings attached, one on the south of
two stories followed by a one story addition, and one on the north that is one-and-a-half stories in height. This form of a main
block with wings was the form that the first Greek Revival house in Northampton was given (no longer extant) and one that was
picked up and repeated by two adjacent Greek Revival houses in Haydenville north of this house. Here, however, the form itself
has been altered as the south wing has been raised a story, its fenestration altered and the one-story addition made.
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 1976: “This Greek Revival residence located on the Northampton-Williamsburg line is the principal structure on
a large parcel of farmland. The property was in the Towers family through most of the later nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. It appears that the residence was built for a Johnson, for a sale of the surrounding property in 1848 mentions that the
Widow Sylvia Johnson is residing in the house.”
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: 1545.198, 1233.318, 1186.65, 1096.23-30, 964.366, 357.133, 125.197