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90 Market 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, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-116-001 Easthampton NTH.2524 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 90 Market Street Historic Name: Charlotte Edwards House Uses: Present: Two-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1865 Source: Maps of 1860 and 1873 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2005. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.214 acres Setting: This is an east-facing house with a broad side yard surrounded by a picket fence. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [90 Market Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2524 ___ 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. Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This house has been recently restored and is among the best-preserved of the houses on Market Street. It is a two-story, Italianate style house that is gable-and-wing in form and has steeply-pitched gable roofs. In the angle between the front-gable section and the wing section is a two-story room one bay by one bay that contains the entry to the house. This room has a shed roof and adds considerably to the complexity of the floor plan of the house along with a two-story ell on the west. To add space to the second floor rooms there are through-eaves dormers on the gable, wing and ells sections of the house. Windows of the gable and wing have hooded Italianate lintels supported on scroll-cut brackets. A corner porch spans from the wing to the gable section of the house. It is supported on chamfered Italianate posts with open-work brackets at the eaves. Railings have square balusters. These porch elements are used again on a side porch of the ell. A side deck with square baluster railings has been added to the south elevation of the house. 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. The Charlotte Edward House first appears on the 1873 and 1875 maps though it is illegibly named on the 1873 and unnamed on the 1875 birds-eye. By 1884 the house is listed on the map of that year as belonging to Charles H. Edwards, but the U.S. Census shows that Charles H. Edwards was actually living with his mother, Charlotte P. Edwards who was the head of household. She kept house and Charles worked as a carpenter. Charlotte was the widow of George W. Edwards of Northampton. She and George lived with his farming family with brothers William, Harry and mother Rachel as early as 1860 and through 1870, but not, it would appear from the census, in this location. By 1884 George is dead and Charlotte has moved to this house. It was still in the family in 1895, though by that year Charlotte had moved out and was living with her son George F. Edwards and his wife Martha and their children at 177 Bridge Street. George F. Edwards was a salesman in a dry goods store. In 1895 Charlotte, widow of George W. Edwards boards at 177 Bridge Street with George F. Edwards who was a clerk on Elm Street. In 1900 census he was a salesman of dry goods and she was still living with him as his wife Martha and children. It is difficult to trace the occupants of the house until 1926 when Raffaele and Mary Bortugno lived here. Raffaele was a dyer in a textile mill and she was employed by the McCallum hosiery Company. The house was functioning by 1926 as a two-family and the second family was that of Marietta and Vito Susco. Vito worked for the Northampton Street Railway Company. The two couples were still in the house in 1935. Raffaele had changed his name to Ralph and his work to the ERA while Vito had shifted to the Boston and Maine Railroad. 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.