11 Munroe 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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): June, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
38B-103 Easthampton NTH.1024
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 11 Munroe Street
Historic Name: Vernett E. Cleveland House
Uses: Present: Six unit residence
Original: Single family residence
Date of Construction: 1892-94
Source: Registry of Deeds and Directory
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Vinyl
Roof: Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Vinyl replacement siding and windows.
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.17 acres
Setting: House sits very close to the street in an
established residential neighborhood of former single family
homes. House has a few shrubs in the small front yard.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [11 MUNROE ]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.1024
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This is a two-story Italianate home with low pitched hipped roof with wide eaves. The roof line is broken by a central wall gable
with lunette. The symmetry of the front façade is disrupted by a two-story corner bay window on the western elevation of the
home. The house has classical detailing such as its slim fluted cornerboards, wide frieze, and second story windows with
projecting lintels; however most of these details are vinyl replacements. The house has lost many of its original architectural
features since it was first inventoried in 1980. Vinyl siding now covers the entire façade. The cornerboards and wide frieze are
now vinyl as are the window surrounds and attic story lunette. The frieze originally had pattered ventilators before the post-1980
renovation. The original windows have also been replaced. The front entrance is marked by portico with front gable roof that is
supported by fluted Doric columns resting on high pedestals. The house has a two story rear ell of almost equal size to the main
block of the house. On the western elevation of the home, there is a one-story shed roof porch with matching features. The
house has one center brick chimney and rests on a brick foundation.
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: “David M, Clapp, a South Street farmer and member of a family which had first settled on South Street in
1713, owned land between what was originally Franklin Avenue (now Munroe Street) and Columbus Avenue. His homestead
stretched easterly from South Street over the brow of the Mill River terrace into the Meadows. After his death, his daughters
Harriet and Jane acquired the property. Lots were sold on the south side of Munroe Street. In 1892 Vernett Cleveland bought
this lot from Harriet Clapp and had this house built by 1894. Mr. Cleveland was a bookkeeper for the Smith Carr Baking
Company.”
House owned by Daniel and Shirley Levin in 1980 and William F. and Patricia Boyle in 2010.
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. 455-p.197, 455-349, & 784-236
Northampton Directory 1894-95