106 Hinckley 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
23D-141 Easthampton NTH.258
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State
Address: 106 Hinckley Street
Historic Name: Richard O’Brien House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: single-family residence
Date of Construction: c. 1890
Source: Atlases and Directories
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl, shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Vinyl siding added ca. 2000.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.269 acres
Setting: This house sits on a rise in the landscape
and faces east on a street of largely late 19th century
houses.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [106 HINCKLEY STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.258
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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 modest Queen Anne style house that was built for space more than for an elegant exterior, although it does have
Queen Anne stylistic features. It is two-and-a-half stories in height with a front-gable roof and a two-and-a-half story wing on the
south. The main block of the house is three bays wide and the wing is two bays wide and each of the house segments has a
porch on turned posts with brackets at its eaves. The brackets are not identical, however. In the gable fields are shingles laid in
patterns. Porch railings with square balusters are later additions. Vinyl siding and replacement windows obscure details that
would help identify the age and style of the house.
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: “This large clapboard house was built on land of Richard O’Brien. Mr. O’Brien, a mason, bought a little
more than an acre of land on the eastern slope of Baker’s Hill, fronting on Hinckley Street, for $290.75 in 1869. The sale was
made subject to a right of way 33 feet wide ‘in continuation of road already located south of premises.’ This was Maple Street
(now Maplewood Terrace). Mr. O’Brien’s house was located west of the proposed street. Shortly before 1895, this house was
built east of Maple Street, fronting on Hinckley Street.”
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. 279-P.271, 208-171