48 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-73 Easthampton NTH.287
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 48 Massasoit Street
Historic Name: Enos Wellington House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1869-1871
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: eclectic
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: slate, asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Attached garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Fenestration altered, garage attached, 1970-1990.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.37 acres
Setting: This is an east-facing house on a turn-of-the
century, residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [48 MASSASOIT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.287
_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.
The Enos Wellington House is largely Gothic Revival in style but has lost some of its trim and been altered to display more than
one style. The house is one-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof with two cross-gable wings on north and south
for a T-shaped plan. Its roofs are steeply-pitched in Gothic fashion, have wide overhangs and are thinly boxed. Through-eaves
dormers on both cross-gable wings have Gothic earred lintels. There is a full-width porch on the east façade that extends to the
south and north elevations but has been enclosed on those elevations to provide more interior space. The porch is supported
on posts with Eastlake brackets at the eaves. The main block of the house is two bays wide. A sidehall entry is adjacent to a
three-sided bay window. Window sash is mainly 2/2 but some 1/1 replacement sash is in place as well. An added “picture”
window is located in the south wing that also attaches to an added garage.
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 opened in 1869 with a subdivision plan of Henry Maynard. In 1871, Enos
Wellington, a paper maker, paid $1700 for this house and land, lot no. 9 on Maynard’s plan. By 1873, about a dozen houses
had been built on this street, and most of the other houses were built by the end of the century.”
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.
Registry of Deeds: Bk. 4130P. 86 and 123, 264-170
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [48 MASSASOIT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.287
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 Wellington 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 Wellington House is a stylistically eclectic house and
would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting,
design and materials.