20 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-095 Easthampton NTH.1020
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 20 Munroe Street
Historic Name: H. M. Smith Residence
Uses: Present: Single family
Original: Single family
Date of Construction: 1869
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, Oct. 5, 1869
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: William F. Pratt
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Asbestos shingle
Roof: Unknown
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Three bay, two story carriage house
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.29 acres
Setting: House faces south to the street in an established
residential neighborhood of former single family homes.
House has a few shrubs and trees on the property.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [20 MUNROE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.1020
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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 style home with very low-pitched hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves. It is almost identical to
its next door neighbor at 16 Monroe Street although it retains more of its historic features. This house is in the shape of an “L”
and in the crook of the “L” is a one-story porch with low-pitched roof. The Italianate style porch with wide frieze is supported by
rounded columns that rest on pedestals. Underneath the porch roof is an Italianate style three-sided front entry. There is a
similar three-sided bay on the front façade. Windows are original to the home and have two over two sash with architrave
surrounds and projecting cornices. The window above the bay is paired, which is another distinct feature of the Italianate style.
Another noteworthy features are the iron grate ventilators along the attic frieze. The home has two brick chimneys and smaller
additions to the rear of the home. This house also has a two-and-a-half story wood-shingle carriage house with three bays. Each
bay has a double leaf cross-buck door.
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: “William F. Pratt, local architect, designed this house for H. M. Smith of the firm Smith and Stephens in
1869. Pratt here employed the corner entryway which he used in 1859 in the Gothic Seth Hunt House on Bridge Street (117).”
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.