21-23 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-107 Easthampton NTH.1026
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 21-23 Munroe Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Two family
Original: Two family
Date of Construction: 1895-1915
Source: Atlases
Style/Form: Queen Anne / Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Brick
Roof: Slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Second floor screen porch added, mid 20th century
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.16 acres
Setting: House sits very close to the street in an
established residential neighborhood of mostly former single
family homes. House has a few shrubs in the small front
yard.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [21-23 MUNROE ]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.1026
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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 home with front gable roof. The house is transitional in style, showing features from both the
Queen Ann and Colonial Revival styles. The house reportedly was constructed as a two-family house with horizontal separation,
so that each family has a complete floor. The house features a two-story Queen Anne style bay with slate roof at the northwest
corner of the facade. A stacked half-porch covers the rest of the front facade. The porch has large columns resting on fieldstone
pedestals, which shows the influence of the Craftsman Style. Separating the first and second levels of the porch is a mansard-
type roof. The segmentally arched windows have brownstone sills and are six over one sash. The house has a single brick
chimney located on the ridge. The house rests on a brick foundation and is capped by a slate roof.
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: “Munroe St. was laid out in the early 1870's along the northern edge of David Munroe Clapp's South
Street homestead. Originally known as Franklin Ave. the name was changed in 1882 and by 1884 six houses had been built on
the street. By 1895 this total had increased to sixteen houses. This brick house was one of the later houses to be built on the
street.”
Albert J. & Stephanie Descarage owned this house in 1980 when it was first inventoried and continue to own the house at the
time of this writing.
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. 413-p 39, 400-10
Northampton Directory: 1885-86, 1886-87