29 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-109 Easthampton NTH.1028
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 29 Munroe Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Two family
Original: Single family
Date of Construction: 1876-80
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Late Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Clapboard
Roof: Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Asbestos shingles mid 20th century, asbestos shingles
removed circa 2000
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.18 acres
Setting: House sits very close to the street on a corner lot.
It is within an established residential neighborhood of mostly
former single family homes.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [29 MUNROE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.1028
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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 late Italianate style home with a front gable roof and a cross gable on its western elevation. The
front gable originally had a small two over two sash gothic style window in the gable field but this was replaced with a Palladian
window sometime after 1980. The house is three bays wide and has a small pedimented entry portico with square posts with
beveled corners and balustrade with square balusters. The house retains its original two over two sash windows but these are
partially hidden by metal storm windows. Windows have projecting cornices and the trim is painted to match the entablature
found elsewhere on the home. The eastern elevation of the house has a one-story, three-sided bay window. The western
elevation has a two story wing that is one bay wide. The house has a center ridgeline brick chimney. There is a two story rear ell
with two-story porch on its eastern elevation. Before both houses were renovated, this house was almost an identical match to
its neighbor at 25 Munroe Street
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 the 1870s. By 1873, the first house
had been constructed at 37 Munroe Street. Waldo Lamb was listed as first living here in the 1880 directory. Waldo Lamb was an
owner, along with Horace Lamb, of the Horace Lamb & Co. Wire manufactory on Clark Avenue.”
Sean P. Gaffney owned this house in 2010 as well as the house at 25 Munroe Street.
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 484-p 127, 474-316.
Northampton Directory: 1875-76, 1880-81, 1895-96