61A 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-249 Easthampton NTH.2537
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence
Address: 61A North Main Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1920
Source: Sanborn Insurance Map of 1915
Style/Form: Craftsman
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: concrete
Wall/Trim: stucco, wood shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.5 acres
Setting: This is one of three houses on a single
lot. It is set at the northwest corner of the lot.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [61A North Main Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2537
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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 stuccoed and shingled one-and-a-half story house under a hipped roof. It has high, rough-faced concrete foundations
and an asphalt shingled roof. There is a single chimney near the crest of the roof. The house is five bays wide on its south
façade with the equivalent of two bays enclosed in a stucco-sided porch and three bays of glassed-in porch. Stylistically, the
house was originally Craftsman with its natural materials and shed roof dormer with exposed rafters.
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 1869, Jehiel Davis bought lots no. 6 and 7 of the Littlefield and Graves subdivision plan for the area
bound by Graves Street (later Myrtle Street, now Bardwell Street), North Main Street and North Maple Street in Florence. The
house was built by 1873 as it is shown on the atlas of that year. Mr. Davis became superintendent of the Florence Furniture Co.
when it was founded in 1873.” This history refers to one of the three houses on this lot, 61 North Main Street. It does not refer
to the house at 61A North Main Street. On the Sanborn Insurance Maps for Northampton 61 North Main Street is the last
building to be identified and only in a sketchy manner. Neither this building nor the one at 59 appears on that map, which is not
conclusive but suggestive that they date after 1915.
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.