98 Lake 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
17A-248 Easthampton NTH.79
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence
Address: 98 Lake Street
Historic Name: Richard Hulme House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1873-1884
Source: maps of 1873 and 1884
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: shingles
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.38 acres
Setting: This house faces east on a tree-shaded
lot.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [98 LAKE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Hulme House is a popular house form, which has been embellished, from the last quarter of the 19th century in
Northampton. It is a two-story house under a front-gable roof with a two-story, two-bay long wing on its south elevation. As a
basic gable-and-wing form, the house appeared in Northampton in one-and-a-half and two-and-a-half story versions as workers’
housing and as speculatively-built housing for the city’s growing middle class. This house appears to fall in the second category
with its full-width porch on the main block supported on chamfered posts with scroll-cut brackets at the eaves and a second story
oriel window centered above its roof. The oriel is angled and its three-sided slate roof sits within the angle of the front-gable
roof, an infrequent architectural feature. There is a small secondary porch in the angle between the main block and the wing. It
rests on a single chamfered post with a bracket at the eaves repeating the main porch’s decorative features. The plan of the
house is further enhanced by a three-sided, one-story bay window on the south elevation of the wing. The pitch of the roof is
fairly low and its eaves are wide and thinly boxed, and do not make returns, features that indicate some economies were made
in the house’s design and construction.
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: “A subdivision plan was filed for Lake Street was filed by Charles Warren, a Florence butcher and real
estate developer, in 1868. This was the year after the railroad through Florence, connecting Williamsburg and Northampton was
opened. The railroad ran parallel to and just north of Main and North Main Streets in Florence and spurred industrial and
residential development here. Until this time, the village of Florence had been developed between Main Street and the Mill
River.
Development was slow on Lake Street, with six houses constructed by 1884, and only a few more before the turn of the
century. This house first appears on the 1884 atlas and was owned by Richard Hulme, an engineer at the B.M. Couch foundry
on North Maple Street 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.