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10 Jewett Street Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month / year): April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31A-125-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 10 Jewett Street Historic Name: Frederick A. Ames House and Meat Market Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house and store Date of Construction: 1895-1910 Source: Sanborn Insurance maps Style/Form: Queen Anne/Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Chester White, attributed Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage Barn Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.155 acres Setting: This house faces north on a short residential street. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [10 Jewett STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH. __x_ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This is a two-and-a-half story house under a pyramidal hipped roof. It has a two-and-a-half story ell on the south. The north side of the roof projects slightly as a two-bay wide pavilion that is crossed on the north façade by a porch on fluted posts. The pavilion has a side entry adjacent to a very large picture window. The window and the glazed triangular dormers are features seen in the work of builder Chester White who was active at the time this house was built. The rest of the north façade is one bay wide and is occupied by a second picture window that is slightly smaller. While the porch and the capped window lintels are Colonial Revival in style, an oriel window that is three-sided on the east elevation is Queen Anne. The house is rather severe and geometric and is transitional between the two styles. 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. Frederick Ames arrived at this house between 1910 and 1920 and may have been its first owner. The house appears to have built by Chester White and resembles White’s other documented and attributed houses at 274 Bridge Street and 222 Bridge Street. Ames who had lived previously on Gothic Street and was a store clerk opened a meat market at this house by 1920. He had retired by 1930 and in 1940 the house had been taken over by his son Harold L. Ames and his wife Effie. Harold was an assistant cashier at the First National Bank of Northampton and moved up to cashier and trust officer by 1950. He was also a treasurer of the Hill Institute in Florence. 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. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [10 Jewett STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH. National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a potential historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side streets laid out on the south side of Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of the development of Northampton from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for attendance at Smith College, and the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a shift from gentlemen’s estates to accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers. According to criterion C this district would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles are all well-represented within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time.