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70 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, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24C-68 Easthampton NTH.284 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 70 Massasoit Street Historic Name: Michael Hennessey House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1888-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.3 acres Setting: This house faces east on a quiet, residential street. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [70 MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.284 __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 rather tall and narrow, two-story house under a front-gable roof. The house is gable-and-wing in form with a two-story wing on the south elevation. The house is three bays wide in its main block and has a Queen Anne style porch across the east façade. The shed-roofed porch has posts with arched arrow brackets at the eaves and the spandrels at each end of the shed roof have been decoratively shingled. The main block of the house is two bays deep and there is a two-story ell on the west adding to the length. A one-story, shed-roofed addition has been placed on the south elevation of the wing. To its southeast corner is attached an unusual, two-story, exterior chimney whose firebox is not visible from the street. 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: “In 1869, Henry Maynard filed a subdivision plan for Massasoit Street and attendant lots. Development was slow though and by 1884, only a dozen houses had been built. Most of the construction took place between the mid 1880s and mid 1890s, so that by 1895, the street appeared substantially as it does today. In 1888, Michael Hennessey bought lot no. 19 of the plan for $275, and established his homestead here.” 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. 418-P. 131, 366-320 INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [70 MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.284 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 Hennessy House and Carriage 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 Hennessy House and Carriage House are a good and typical example of the modest Queen Anne style and would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.