21-23 Orchard 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): April, 2011
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
25C-150 Easthampton NTH.394
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 21-23 Orchard Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Two-family residence
Date of Construction: 1897-1915
Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added and windows replaced, ca. 2005. Porch
rebuilt with altered posts.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.152 acres
Setting: This house faces south on a residential
street leading from a main thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [21-23 ORCHARD STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.394
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This two-and-a-half story, two-family house follows a plan and elevation that appears regularly in Northampton’s residential
neighborhoods. It consists of a hipped roof from which project two cross-gabled pavilions, the whole connected on the façade
by a full-width porch. Details vary within this common form. Here there is a pedimented dormer centered between the two
pavilions and there is a pediment on the porch roof above its entry. Queen Anne style multi-light windows appear in the gable
fields of the pavilions. Vinyl siding and narrowed, vinyl replacement windows, however, have caused a loss in visible historic
materials and a consequent loss of stylistic details. Battered porch posts on pedestals appear to have been rebuilt since 1980,
and a porch railing has been removed, while stair railings have been added.
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: “A subdivision plan for Orchard Street was filed in 1897. At that time there were three homesteads on the
north side of Bridge Street between the cemetery and Grant Avenue. These homesteads were extended northerly almost to
North Street. Orchard Street and Elizabeth Street (1908) were laid out through these homesteads. Both streets were
predominantly developed with two-family houses.”
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. 503-P. 130 and 131, 632-270