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16 Massasoit 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 24C-77 Easthampton NTH.290 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 16 Massasoit Street Historic Name: Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.358 acres Setting: This is an east-facing house on an established, residential street. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [16 MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.290 __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 late Colonial Revival style house designed in the Dutch Colonial Revival style with a gambrel roof. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a side-gambrel roof. On the upper slope of the roof the chimney is located at the center of the roof rid ge above two small shed roof dormers. The lower slope of the roof has a full-width, shed-roof dormer that effectively raise the house a full second story. The dormer roof has exposed rafters, a design feature adopted from the Craftsman style that was developing ca. 1913. The dormer is two bays wide with one bay a window with 6/1 sash and the second bay projecting and containing a three-part window composition – a feature that appeared consistently after 1910. The lower slope of the roof is wood shingle sided. The first story of the house is clapboard sided, is two bays wide and the equivalent of three bays deep, fitting the relatively narrow lot with a rectangular plan. Following the Colonial Revival style, the first story has pilasters framing the building and rising to a broad frieze beneath the eaves. The eaves make full returns in the gable ends and a broad watertable further borders the first story. On the south elevation a curved oriel window is supported on consoles. A porch, one bay wide, is supported on triple, ¾ length columns resting on shingled piers on the east façade. It is topped by a Colonial Revival pediment. 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 but most of the development took place between the mid 1880’s and mid 1890’s. By 1895, most of the present residences had been constructed, and any further building took place by filling in the gaps. This house was probably built early in the 20th century and first appears on the 1915 atlas.” 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 ] [16 MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.290 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 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. This house is a good example of the Colonial Revival style and would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.