21 North Main 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: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
17C-254 Easthampton NTH.122
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence
Address: 21 North Main Street
Historic Name: Charles L. Warren House
Uses: Present: Three-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1863-1872
Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.654 acres
Setting: This building faces south and is near the
center of Florence’s commercial district.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [21 NORTH MAIN STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.122
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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 fine Italianate style building, two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gabled roof with wide eaves that are bracket-
supported. The house is gable-and-wing in form with a one-and-a-half story wing on the east. The gable section of the house
is three bays wide and the wing is three bays wide with two small, knee-high windows on its south façade at the attic level. Door
and window surrounds in the house are typically Italianate being pedimented and their cornices supported on small brackets.
The main door surround is broad and has full-length sidelights flanking its paneled door. Equally characteristic of the Italianate
style are the full-length first floor openings, French doors in this case. Sash in most of the windows is 2/2 and in the knee-high
windows it is 3/3. The main block of the house has a full-width porch supported on chamfered posts with finely-cut brackets at
the eaves. The porch is without railings, a feature often found in the style in order to suggest an Italian arcade.
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 1862, Isaac Graves and D.G. Littlefield filed a subdivision plan for the area bounded by Graves (lat er
Myrtle, now Bardwell), North Main and North Maple Streets. The next year, Charles Warren bought lot no. 2 for $400. Mr.
Warren was a farmer, and in later years a real estate developer. His residence was probably built soon after the purchase and
he lived here into the 20th century.”
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