128 North 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, 2011
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
25C-5 Easthampton NTH.382
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 128 North Street
Historic Name: Charles W. Kinney House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1888-1895
Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Charles H. Jones, architect, attributed
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: aluminum/vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Carriage barn
Major Alterations (with dates):
House sided and windows replaced, ca. 1980-2000.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.713 acres
Setting: This house faces south overlooking the
Bridge Street Cemetery.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [128 NORTH STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Kinney House is a two-and-a-half story late Queen Anne style house that like its neighbor at 124 North Street was becoming
simplified in plan and elevation as architectural tastes shifted away from the complexity of the full Queen Anne style towards the
more geometric Colonial Revival. The house has a pyramidal hipped roof with cross-gable bays on the south façade and the
west elevation. It has a wraparound porch that crosses the south façade and turns on to the west elevation. Rather than turned
posts, the porch rests on square posts and its railings have square balusters. Stairs to the porch are marked by a pediment on
the porch roof. The Queen Anne interest in picturesque elevations is found at the second story on the south façade where a
recessed porch was created. Above it at the attic level is a projecting oriel window that has a band of fixed, fifteen-light windows
that are separated by scrolled consoles. North of the house is a large carriage barn that has been preserved when most have
been lost.
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 is one of five houses built around 1890 on the north side of North Street. Edward Strong, a farmer
who owned a large homestead on this street sold these lots for residential development between 1887 and 1895. In 1888,
Charles Kinney, co-proprietor of the Hampshire Marble Co., bought this lot. This house appears on the 1895 atlas, and bears
resemblance in its front gable detail to several other houses in Northampton. All of these were most likely designed by Charles
Jones, a prominent local architect of the turn of the century period.”
In 1880 Charles H. Jones listed himself as a painter in the federal census. He was living with his wife Mary, his mother
Mehitable, and two sons and a servant in Northampton. Then by 1893 Jones listed himself in the Northampton Directories as an
architect and designer and he worked from an office on Court Street where the family also lived. His work was contemporary
with the firm of Putnam and Bayley, but less well-known, presumably because he worked largely as a decorator before
becoming an architect.
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. 420-P. 37