36 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-169 Easthampton NTH.399
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 36 Orchard Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Three-family residence
Original: Three-family residence
Date of Construction: 1897-1915
Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: not visible
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added and windows replaced, ca. 2005.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.152 acres
Setting: This house faces north on a short,
residential street that leads off of a major thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [36 ORCHARD STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.399
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
One of two on Orchard Street, this building of three stories is one of the few triple-deckers built in Northampton where two family
houses and apartment rows were more often chosen as the preferred forms for multi-family housing. The building has a full-
width porch on the first story and one-bay-wide stacked porches at the second and third stories of the north façade. A shallow
angled bay window rises all three stories on this façade. The center window of the bay at each story is a large, fixed-light
window with a leaded glass transom. The shallow bay, fixed-light window and transoms are repeated on the east elevation and
small horizontal stair windows on the east elevation are also glazed with leaded glass. The porches are supported on Colonial
Revival posts with small brackets at their roof eaves. The brackets are also found on the eaves of the main roof acting as
classical modillion blocks above a frieze and narrow dentil row.
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: “Orchard Street was laid out around the turn-of-the-century along the eastern side of Bridge Street
cemetery. It was a residential street, and was quickly developed, mostly 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