12 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
30B-23 Easthampton NTH.432
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State
Address: 12 Hinckley Street
Historic Name: John P. Seidell House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1884-1886
Source: Atlas & Directory
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): vinyl siding added, and
windows replaced, ca. 1990; porch added, ca. 1970.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.574 acres
Setting: This house is set on a rise in the
landscape and faces east.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [12 HINCKLEY STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.432
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Seidell House is typical of many of the workers’ houses that were built in the last quarter of the 19th century in Northampton
in that it is one-and-a-half stories in height and L-shaped in plan with a porch in the angle between the two house sections. It is
modest in size yet it has stylistic ornament that helps define it as a Queen Anne style house. For instance, there is a jerkin head
roof in the south wing, and angled, one-story bay window on the gable section and a shed roof porch on turned Queen Anne
posts sheltering the main entry. The porch railing is ornamentally cut in a jigsaw-cut pattern that was popular in the 1880s and
90s. Typical of the 1880s, windows are paired in the second story and there is a small front-gabled dormer on the east façade.
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: “Mr. John P. Seidell was employed as a foreman for the Northampton Cutlery Company.”
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.