10 Massasoit 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
24C-79 Easthampton NTH.292
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 10 Massasoit Street
Historic Name: Henry Mills House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1884-1887
Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.378 acres
Setting: This house faces east on a quiet
residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [10 MASSASOIT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.292
_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 a gable-and-wing form house that is two-stories in height. The gable section of the Queen Anne style house is one bay
wide with pairs of 6/1 sash windows at both stories. The wing section of the house is the equivalent of two bays wide and two
bays deep. It has a jerkin head roof on its south elevation. In the angle between the two sections of the house is a hipped roof
porch that rests on Doric columns. A one-story screened porch is located at the southwest corner of the house. The clapboard-
sided house has a beltcourse separating first and second stories, which adds to its picturesque qualities. The front-gable
section also has a gable field of scalloped shingles. There is a Queen Anne style stair window with multiple panes on the south
elevation.
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: “Massasoit Street was laid out in 1869 through a subdivision plan of Henry Maynard. Development was
slow with only a dozen houses erected by 1884. However, the next decade saw a good deal more building, and by 1895, most
of the present residences were built.
In 1887, Henry Mills, a cutler, purchased lot no. 3 with his house upon it.”
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 Ham pshire, 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.
Registry of Deeds: Bk. 411-P. 351, 374-83, 264-170
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [10 MASSASOIT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 2
NTH.292
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.
The Mills House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary
corridor, Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential
historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense
with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton
for several hundred years to the present.
Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and
Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-
designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Mills House is a good example of the Queen Anne style in
a modest version, and would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of
workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.