80 Market 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, 2011
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32A-114 Easthampton NTH.2053
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 80 Market Street
Historic Name: Orange Wright House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1850s
Source: Map and visual evidence
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: asphalt shingles
Roof: not visible
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Enclosed side porch, front porch posts altered, n.d.
Condition: fair-poor
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.104 acres
Setting: This house faces east in a residential section of
Market Street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [80 MARKET STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2053
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Wright House is a two-story Italianate style house under a flat roof with wide eaves. It is among the several Italianate style
houses on Market Street and was intended to resemble an Italian villa. The house is only two bays wide two bays deep for a
square plan to which were added a two-story ell on the west and an enclosed side porch on the south. Windows in the house
have architrave surrounds with artificially-sided cornices and their sash is a combination of 1/1 and 2/2. A hipped roof porch
crosses the east façade. It is supported on fluted posts with respondent fluted pilasters at the façade wall. The railing
connecting the posts has square balusters.
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 appears to have been built shortly after 1850 by Orange Wright, a carpenter. Mr. Wright is listed on
Market Street in the first Northampton directory, published in 1860, and he maintains his residence here at least until 1875. The
1831, 1854, and 1860 maps all seem to show a house located near this site, but it’s doubtful the house predates the early
1850’’s and was probably built for Orange Wright. Mr. Wright’s family had owned the homestead at no. 65 Market Street for
many generations.”
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.