47 Holyoke 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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): June, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32C-210 Easthampton NTH.2153
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 47 Holyoke Street
Historic Name: I.H. Stevens House
Uses: Present: Two family residence
Original: Single family residence
Date of Construction: 1855-1860
Source: 1860 Map
Style/Form: Greek Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Asphalt shingle
Roof: Asphalt shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Asphalt shingle siding, circa 1970
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x| yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.73 acres
Setting: House sits close to the street in a residential
neighborhood of former single family homes that have been
converted into multiple residential units.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [47 HOLYOKE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2153
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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 story Greek Revival home with pedimented gable, broad corner pilasters, and a wide frieze. These features evoke
a temple-like structure. The home faces north onto Holyoke Street and is three bays wide and three bays deep with a side hall
entry plan. The front entry door is new but the entry way has retained its original multicolored transom and sidelights. The long
side porch on the east elevation of the home and entrance portico are later Victorian additions. The entrance portico has a shed
roof and is supported by turned posted with decorative brackets. The foundation of the home is brick and the house is clad in
asphalt shingle. The original windows have been replaced with six over one sash vinyl windows. There is a three-sided bay on
the western elevation of the home. A porch was added directly above in the 20th century to provide a secondary access for the
secondary dwelling unit in the home. Extending off the southern elevation is a two-story ell followed by a one-story ell.
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 Greek Revival Residence was built in the late 1850s for Ira H. Stevens. Holyoke Street had been
opened in the early 1850s and featured several Greek Revival homes in the vernacular manner.”
Although this house is connected to additional buildings to the rear, the back half of the lot was subdivided at some point in the
last fifty years, resulting in a separate single family living unit. Gary and Sandra Milo owned the house in 1980 when the house
was first included on the city’s inventory, and the family continues to own the house to the present.
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: Book 499-Page 167, 269-239, 158-472, 148-261