139 Riverside Drive
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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, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
30B-59 Easthampton NTH.436
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 139 Riverside Drive
Historic Name: Jonathan Baldwin House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1862-1865
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboard/vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Carriage barn
Major Alterations (with dates):
Vinyl added to eaves and windows replaced, ca. 2000.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.63 acre
Setting: This house faces southeast on a relatively
wide lot in an area of workers’ houses.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [139 RIVERSIDE DRIVE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.436
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Baldwin House is a two-story house with a front-gable roof and cross-gables on the north and south and a one-story ell on
the west. The house is two bays wide and has a wraparound porch that crosses its east façade and turns on to the south, to
end at the cross-gable. It has sturdy turned porch supports and scroll-cut brackets at the eaves in Queen Anne fashion, so was
a later addition or alteration to the modest Italianate style house. The main block of the house is two bays deep. The carriage
barn that is on the south side of the house is a relatively rare survival and reminds us what the neighborhood looked like before
the turn-of-the-century when most houses had carriage barns on their lots.
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: “In 1862, Oscar Edwards bought lots nine and ten of J. H. Lyman’s plan for the area bounded by Warner
Street, Hinckley Street, Riverside Road and Federal Street. The total price was $128. Seven years later, he sold both lots and a
dwelling house to Jonathan Baldwin for $1600. Mr. Edwards, a local druggist, doesn’t seem to have lived here, but probably had
the house built for lease. Mr. Baldwin, a cutler at the Clement Cutlery, did live here until the early 1890’s.”
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. 264-P. 347, 208-144, 204-156, 197-322