24 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-76 Easthampton NTH.289
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 24 Massasoit Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1895-1915
Source: Atlases
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Attached garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Rear wing and garage added, ca. 1980.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.448 acres
Setting: This is an east-facing house on a residential
street lined mainly with late 19th-early 20th century houses.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [24 MASSASOIT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.289
_x__ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
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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 two-and-a-half story Queen Anne style house with a hipped roof from which projects on the east façade a three-sided
bay, and from the south elevation a three-sided bay and a cross-gable bay. It is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays
deep for a complex plan. The first story of the house is clapboard-sided and the second story is shingle-sided. A wide frieze
surrounds the house beneath the wide eaves overhang. The south cross-gable bay has a projecting pediment on brackets. A
wraparound porch extends from the east façade around to the south elevation. It is a hipped roof porch with a pediment marking
the entry stairs. It rests on columns that are connected by square baluster railings. In its lack of turned features and scroll cut
brackets, this house is transitional to the Colonial Revival style that also was current during the decades of the turn-of-the
century. An exterior wall chimney that cuts through the eaves suggests this house is closer to 1915 when the Craftsman style
was current than to 1895. An added one-story wing on the south connects to a two-bay garage, both later additions.
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.”
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 ] [24 MASSASOIT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 2
NTH.289
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 late Queen Anne style and
would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting,
design and materials.