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14 Liberty 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 30B-40 Easthampton NTH.434 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 14 Liberty Street Historic Name: Adam Englehart House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: c. 1895 Source: Atlas & Directory Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.257 acres Setting: This is an east-facing house on a shady residential street. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [14 LIBERTY STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.434 __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 house, together with its neighbor at 15 Liberty Street are two of the best examples of the Queen Anne style in Bay State. The Englehart House is a two-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof with a cross-gable bay on the south elevation, a two-story ell on the west and an enclosed side porch adjacent to the ell on its south elevation. The house has been made visually picturesque, following the principles of the Queen Anne style, by the use of clapboards and shingles on the exterior. The house is clapboard-sided on the first and second stories separated by a band of shingles. Shingles also fill the gable field of the main block of the house and its cross-gable bay. Queen Anne in style as well is the hipped roof porch on the east façade supported by heavy turned posts that are connected by railings with turned balusters. In Northampton a feature of the late Queen Anne style was the use of a large, fixed-light window on the façade – what we now refer to as a “picture window”. The Englehart House is only two bays wide on the first story with a single door and large window behind the full-width porch. Elsewhere in the building the sash is 2/2 and has not been replaced, thereby retaining much of its original character. 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: “Maple St. (now Liberty St.) was part of the Bay State Hardware Company’s subdivision plan, which was filed in 1867. The subdivision contained residential lots, which were made available to the employees of the expanding Bay State cutlery firms. In the beginning, most of the houses were owned by the cutlery companies, who the sold them to employees later on. Originally, this lot was part of the Main Street (now Riverside) fronting lot, which was owned by W. R. Holiday in 1884. The lot was split between 1884 and 1895, and the present house was built on the part in the rear. In 1895, it was owned by Adam Englehart, formerly an employee of Northampton Cutlery Company, but at that time a bicycle repairer.” 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 ] [14 LIBERTY STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.434 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 Bay State Village Historic District as the home of families who worked in the local cutlery factories that dominated the industry of the village from the middle of the 19th century into the 20th century. Architecturally the house is a fine example of the Queen Anne style.