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11 Mulberry 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 10B-24 Easthampton NTH.13 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Leeds Address: 11 Mulberry Street Historic Name: Nonotuck Silk Company House Uses: Present: Seven-unit residence Original: Multi-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1880 Source: 1873 & 1884 Atlases of Northampton Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick, limestone Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good-fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.408 acres Setting: This building faces south towards the Nonotuck Silk Mill factory. The Mill River passes on the west. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [11 MULBERRY STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.13 __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 Colonial Revival style brick house two-and-a-half stories in height under a side-gable roof. Intended as a multi-family house from the time of construction, the building has large proportions. It is five bays wide with a centered, projecting pavilion with a front-gable roof. It is two bays deep and on the north elevation is an ell of two-and-a-half stories followed by a single-story kitchen ell with a chimney. The roof of the house has wide eaves that make returns in the gables. A narrow wood stringcourse runs beneath the eaves to create a frieze. Windows in the house are segmentally arched and have limestone lintels and footed limestone sills. On the south façade the sash is 2/2. In the east and west elevations the first and second story windows are paired and set under joined segmentally arched lintels. Attic level windows are round arched with limestone keystones and arch springings. The center pavilion of the south façade has a round arched window at its attic level above a single segmentally- arched window and a center entry that has a segmentally arched lintel framing a large transom light. The entry doors are double-leaf. Screening the entry is a shallow hipped roof porch resting on posts with high pedestals. It has respondent pilasters. The porch railing is highly ornamental with X-patterned balusters above an apron with vertical balusters. On the roof of this section of the building are two front-gabled dormers that are clapboard-sided. The have Colonial Revival style arched window surrounds with keystones. The north ell of the house follows the main block with its window surrounds, dormers and porch on posts. It was clearly part of the original construction of the building. 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 1975: “This well built brick residence with stone trim was constructed around 1880 for the Nonotuck Silk Company. The Silk Company owned property in Leeds center 1860-1900 and ran a boardinghouse on this site by 1873. The company, also located in Florence, produced sewing silk, crochet, knitting, and embroidery silk and other yarns as well as a few finished products like silk hosiery. Samuel Hill, Samuel Hinckley, A. T. Lilly, and other local industrialists ran the company. The Mill River disaster of 1876—the collapse of the Williamsburg dam and destruction of residences and factory structures lining the river between Williamsburg and Florence—damaged the Nonotuck Silk Company holdings in Leeds, prompting the design and erection of a new silk mill building (now Leeds Village Apartments) on Main Street in 1880. The mill superintendent also built a brick residence, on Grove Hill, at this time and it is likely that the more modest brick structure on Mulberry Street was constructed at this time. Although E. C. Gardner is the architect of the mill structure and the Dimock house, his name has not been connected with the Mulberry Street residence.” 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 ] [11 MULBERRY STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.13 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 Leeds Boarding House would contribute to a Leeds Center Historic District. This small industrial village center was rebuilt after the flood of 1874 had washed away its preceding textile mill buildings, housing and residents. It continued to function as a mill village into the 20th century and the bridge connected industries on both sides of the Mill River. Architecturally it is significant as a representative mill village with boarding house, general store, mill building, bridge, and workers’ housing. It has integrity of design, setting, association, feeling, workmanship and materials.