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29 Keyes 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): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 17C-147 Easthampton NTH.98 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 29 Keyes Street Historic Name: Mrs. Cady House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1860-1873 Source: Map & Atlas Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Attached carriage barn and studio Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2005; studio added ca. 1970 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.198 acres Setting: This house is west-facing and is located adjacent to the former railroad tracks that are now a rail trail. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [29 KEYES STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.98 _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 one of two fine Gothic Revival style houses on Keyes Street, the other being at number 40. It is a form commonly used when the Gothic Revival style was current and consists of a one-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof. It is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep with a one-story ell, a one-story garage, and a two-story studio building attached on the east, together with a carriage barn that is located on the north side of the house. The main block of the house has Gothic Revival style scalloped barge boards with quatrefoil cutouts in its west eaves. It also has a full-width porch on turned posts with lacy scroll-cut brackets at its eaves. First story windows on the west façade are nearly full-length reflecting a borrowing from the Italianate style that was current at the time this house was constructed. The windows now have 6/1 vinyl sash. The plan of the house was varied with a one-story, three-sided bay window on the south elevation followed by a one-story ell with a side porch on the south. The porch has square posts. 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: “In 1867, the Williamsburg to Northampton Railroad was opened. The tracks ran parallel to, and just north of, Main and North Main Streets in Florence and a depot was established on North Maple Street. The railroad spurred industrial and residential development north of Main Street in Florence. During this period, Fruit Street (now Keyes Street) was laid out. This is one of the earliest houses on the street, first appearing on the 1873 atlas.” On the 1873 atlas the house is identified as being that of Mrs. Cady. 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 ] [29 KEYES STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.98 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 Florence Center Historic District. The potential historic district of Florence Center is significant as the commercial, residential, institutional center of the village that developed from 1657 when it was set off as Northampton’s “Inner Commons” as agricultural land and 1681 when the first sawmill was erected at a falls on the Mill River. The agricultural and industrial village developed through the 18th and 19th centuries around industry on the Mill River, agriculture on the alluvial flood plain and the Strong Tavern and later Cottage Hotel at the intersection of Main and Maple Streets. It is significant for the silk industry that flourished through the Civil war as an alternative to slave-picked cotton and for the establishment of the Northampton Association for Education and Industry, a utopian community that existed 1843-1847. Association members after its close continued in Florence their principles of equality by running the Underground Railroad through the village and harboring fugitive slaves. It is significant as the home of Sojourner Truth. 19th century industry in the Center included the Florence Sewing Machine Company, which built its own housing. Architecturally the Center is significant for the range of Gothic Revival, Italianate, Stick Style, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style homes, for its commercial blocks and library in the Revival styles of the late 19th century. Gothic Revival and Italianate style churches are architect-designed in high style versions. The potential district has integrity of workmanship, design, feeling, association, and materials.