142 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-153 Easthampton NTH.260
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State
Address: 142 Hinckley Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1860-1868
Source: Map & Directory
Style/Form: gable-and-wing form
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): deck added, windows
replaced, ca. 2000.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.699 acres
Setting: This is an east-facing house that sits on a
gentle hillside on a street with late 19th-early 20th century
houses.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [142 HINCKLEY STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.260
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This house is typical of much of the workers’ housing that was built in the second half of the 19th century for Northampton’s
industries. It is one-and-a-half stories in height and is gable-and-wing in plan with a front-gabled section that is two-bays wide
and a wing that is two bays long. A shed roofed porch crosses the wing and is supported on Italianate styled, chamfered posts
with brackets at the eaves. The house has an ell on the rear and an added side deck on the south elevation. Sash is
replacement 1/1. There is a chimney located at the intersection of the two roof ridge poles. The roof has relatively wide eaves
that are thinly boxed – both features of the Italianate style.
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: “Hinckley Street first appears on the 1873 Atlas, and was named after Samuel Hinckley, the organizer of
the Northampton Cutlery Company. By 1873, there were about a dozen houses located along the street between Main Streets
(now Riverside Drive) and Nonotuck 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.