37 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-111 Easthampton NTH.1030
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 37 Munroe Street
Historic Name: Richard J. Davis Jr. House
Uses: Present: Two family
Original: One family
Date of Construction: circa 1870
Source: Atlas and Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboard
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
1.5 story connected barn
Major Alterations (with dates):
Replacement windows
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.18
Setting: House sits close to the street in an established
residential neighborhood of mostly former single family
homes.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [37 MUNROE ]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.1030
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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 Italianate style house with a front gable roof and a cross gable on its western elevation. The house
is three bays wide and two bays deep. It has an entry portico with low pitched hipped roof supported by paired square posts on
plinths. All windows on the house are 2/2 sash replacements, but the windows retain their original architrave surrounds with
projecting lintels. The front gable field has a small 2/2 sash arched Italianate style window with a peaked lintel. 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 screened porch on the second story on
its eastern elevation. This house is identical in form to the homes at 25 and 29 Monroe Street. There is a two-story carriage
house connected to the rear of the home that is clad in wood shingle and clapboard.
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: “This was the first house built on the southern side of Munroe Street, and is the only house shown on the
1873 Atlas. David N Clapp, a South Street farmer and member of the family that settled on South Street in 1704, owned all of
the land south of Munroe Street from South Street easterly over the brow of the old Mill River terrace into the meadows. In the
early 1870’s, he began selling lots for homesteads on the south side of Munroe Street.
Richard B. Davis Jr. was a carriage maker, working for the firm of R. B. Davis & Company, which was located on South
Street near the present ??.”
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. 262-P. 83, 262-1