51 Phillips Place
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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): May, 2011
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32A-201 Easthampton NTH.2089
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 51 Phillips Place
Historic Name: Charles H. Kinney House
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1848
Source: Registry of Deeds 119.201
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.273 acres
Setting: This house faces north and is set behind
a picket fence.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [51 PHILLIPS PLACE]
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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-story house under a hipped roof with wide eaves that has two ornamental, interior chimneys. The
house is three bays wide and two bays deep and has a one-and-a-half story ell on the south followed by a one-story ell for a T-
shaped plan. There is a side-porch on the east elevation of the ells. The clapboard sided house has an added, Colonial Revival
style porch resting on half-length columns on its north facade. Windows have 2/2 sash. Although the house represents a very
conservative approach, it is yet Italianate in style with its elongated first floor windows with their heavy cornice lintels, the wide
eaves and angled bay window on the west elevation of the first ell. All these features are common to the style.
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 1975: “C.H. Kinney was one of the first to buy land in Phillips Place when the street was opened in 1847. The
‘Plan of Phillips Place’ drawn by W.F. Pratt indicated Kinney’s lot (no. 13) on the southerly side of the street. Kinney later
purchased the lot adjoining (no. 14) and sold a portion of no. 14 to M.E. White in 1855.”
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, Hampshire County, 119.201, 125.375
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [51 PHILLIPS PLACE]
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National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form
Check all that apply:
Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district
Contributing to a potential historic district Potential historic district
Criteria: A B C D
Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G
Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________
The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here.
The Kinney House would contribute to a potential Pomeroy Terrace historic district that developed south and east of
the Bridge Street Cemetery from the second third of the 19th century as Northampton’s finest residential district.
Original residents here were merchants, retired farmers, lawyers, and other professions. As the century progressed the
adjacent streets were laid out for the growing middle class with railroad personnel joining clerks, teachers, and others.
Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the fine examples of the 19th century architectural styles
from the Greek and Gothic Revivals, Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. The district includes
significant examples of the work of Northampton architect William Fenno Pratt. This potential historic district has
integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.