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47 Pine Street Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph 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 23A-169 Easthampton NTH.211 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 47 Pine Street Historic Name: Temperance Hall Outbuilding Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Catholic Meeting Hall Date of Construction: 1884 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, Dec. 23, 1884 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt, Northampton, Architect Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.303 acres Setting: This house faces south on a lot that has mature trees and is fenced in with picket fence. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [47 PINE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.211 __x_ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This is a brick, one-and-a-half story building with a front-gabled roof and side-gabled wings of equal length on both its east and west elevations for a T-shaped plan. The main block is two bays wide and two bays deep and there is a corner porch in the angle between the main block and the east wing. It is supported on a single Doric column. On the west the porch has been enclosed in the corresponding angle. The brick of the building has been laid with a high watertable and windows of the basement and first story are segmentally arched and have brownstone sills. The first story windows have 4/4 wood sash. In th e gable field of the south façade is an Italianate arched window with 2/2 sash and a brownstone sill. The roof has relatively wide eaves overhang that is thinly boxed. In plan and elevation this building was designed for institutional rather than residential use. 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 1976: “Temperance Hall, known today as Annunciation Hall, was designed by W.F. Pratt, a noteworthy architect in the Florence area. At the time of its conception in 1884, Florence held the lead in building construction; eighteen dwellings having been erected in this single year. The impetus for the construction of such a building can be attributed to the Father Matthew Temperance Society. This organization sought a place where society meetings, dances and the like could be held. It pondered an atmosphere conducive for the betterment of morals as well as an increase of simple fun and pleasure. The Easter Ball held in April of 1887 was perhaps a direct result of the latter. We can surmise that Temperance Hall rendered a great service to the Florence Catholics as well as the rest of the village. It is also significant as the site of early prohibition agitation.” This particular building was the outbuilding for Temperance Hall and since 1980 has received its own address as 47 Pine Street. 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. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [47 PINE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.211 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. This property would contribute to a Florence Center Historic District. The potential historic district of Florence Center is significant as the commercial, residential, institutional center of the village that developed from 1657 when it was set off as Northampton’s “Inner Commons” as agricultural land and 1681 when the first sawmill was erected at a falls on the Mill River. The agricultural and industrial village developed through the 18th and 19th centuries around industry on the Mill River, agriculture on the alluvial flood plain and the Strong Tavern and later Cottage Hotel at the intersection of Main and Maple Streets. It is significant for the silk industry that flourished through the Civil war as an alternative to slave-picked cotton and for the establishment of the Northampton Association for Education and Industry, a utopian community that existed 1843-1847. Association members after its close continued in Florence their principles of equality by running the Underground Railroad through the village and harboring fugitive slaves. It is significant as the home of Sojourner Truth. 19th century industry in the Center included the Florence Sewing Machine Company, which built its own housing. Architecturally the Center is significant for the range of Gothic Revival, Italianate, Stick Style, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style homes, for its commercial blocks and library in the Revival styles of the late 19th century. Gothic Revival and Italianate style churches are architect-designed in high style versions. The potential district has integrity of workmanship, design, feeling, association, and materials.