133-135 South 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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): June, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
38B-034 Easthampton NTH.2187
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 133-135 South Street
Historic Name: Eleazar Strong Homestead
Uses: Present: Three unit residence
Original: Single family residence
Date of Construction: c. 1797
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Federal
Architect/Builder: Eleazar Strong
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick and stone
Wall/Trim: Clapboard
Roof: Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.167 acres
Setting: House sits on a corner lot is located very close to
the street. The house is surrounded by informal plantings.
House is in a residential neighborhood of former single
family homes that have been converted to buildings with
two or more residential units.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [133-135 SOUTH STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2187
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This is a two story Federal style home under a truncated hipped roof with cornice line that is ornamented with Federal modillion
blocks. This clapboard sided house has a symmetrical five bay front façade. At the center of the front façade is a recessed entry
with wide trabeated surround that encloses three-quarter length sidelights. The front entrance is covered by a portico with flat
roof and rounded columns. The southern and northern elevations of the home also have center entries covered by porticos. The
porticos were likely late 19th century alterations to the home. The portico on the southern elevation has a low-pitched hipped roof
and square columns, and its entry door has pilasters and a transom. The portico on the northern elevation has rounded
columns, similar low-pitched roof, screening, and modern door. Windows sit close to the roof line and mostly six over six sash.
Window surrounds have Italianate shed roof lintels, which were probably added at the same time as the porticos. The house has
two large two interior chimneys and a foundation comprised of stone and brick.
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 1970: “Eleazar Strong, born in l754, built this house about 1797. He was the son of Ithamar and brother of
Captain David, both boatmen on the Connecticut River. Ithamar was a Revolutionary War soldier. Eleazar married Mindwell,
daughter of Noah Parsons Junior and Phoebe Bartlett. They had nine children. He and several sons were carpenters. One son
Joseph was an architect and Thomas was a farmer. George, the 7th child, born in 1792, succeeded his father and married Lydia
Bartlett in 1820. He died of a fall in 1833 and his widow survived him for nearly half a century. Their sons were in the army and
one in the navy. William was for three years in the tenth regiment, took part in many battles, and his regiment was part of the
Army of the Potomac. Three generations lived in this house during an interval of one hundred years. After the property left the
Strong family, it was Owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Elizah H. Bartlett and Mr. and Mrs. Levi Bartlett. Deeded by Frank H .
Roberts to Clarence E. Hodgkins, County Commissioner, October 16, 1911, he occupied it with his daughter until his death. His
daughter occupied the house in the 1970s and rented two apartments in the house.”
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.
Solomon Clark, Antiquities, Historicals and Graduates of Northampton ( 1881)
Information from owner Miss Alida B. Hodgkins in 1970.