12 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-093 Easthampton NTH.1018
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 12 Munroe Street
Historic Name: Thomas M. and Catherine Kiley House
Uses: Present: Two family
Original: Single family
Date of Construction: 1894-95
Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Vinyl
Roof: Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Asphalt roof replaced slate roof post 1980
Vinyl siding replaced clapboard siding and decorative wood
shingles.
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.11 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 ] [12 MUNROE ]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.1018
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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-and-a-half story Queen Anne home with multiple gables to form a modified cross plan. Similar to its next door
neighbor at 10 Munroe Street, the front gable caps a two-story, three-sided bay at the southwest corner of the front façade. Also
both houses have similar front porches with turned posts, spindle frieze, and a balustrade although this porch does not wrap nor
does it have a pedimented gable. On the southeast corner of this house is a three-story tower with pyramidal roof. There is also
a hipped roof dormer on the southwest elevation of the house. This house has lost much of its original architectural features
since the home was first inventoried in 1980. Vinyl siding now covers the entire façade, erasing the home’s decorative fish scale
shingles that once graced the gables, the third floor of the tower and the wide band of trim that separated the first and second
stories of the house. The original windows have been replaced and original surrounds covered. The slate rood has also been
replaced by an asphalt roof. Off the northeastern elevation of the home is a two-and-a-half story ell. On the northwest corner of
the rear ell is a two story stacked porch with shed roof. The home has a brick chimney on the main block of the house and there
is also a chimney near the ridgeline of the rear ell. The house 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: “In March 1894, Thomas H. Kiley sold part of his homestead to Thomas M. and Catherine Kiley and a
house was built by the time of the 1895 Atlas. Thomas Kiley is listed as working for the Boston & Maine RR and living at 27
State Street in 1895 and 1905, so this probably never served as his residence.”
John and Kathleen O Neil owned this house when it was first inventoried in 1980 and continue to own the house at the time of
this writing 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 465-P. 282, 468-323, 617-469.
Northampton Directory: 1895-96, 1905