202 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): April 2011
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
38B-186 Easthampton NTH.1063
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 202 South Street
Historic Name: Edwin C. Clapp House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single family residence
Date of Construction: c. 1860
Source: Maps and visual evidence
Style/Form: Late Gothic Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Brick
Roof: Slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Front porch added, early 20th century.
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.468 acre
Setting: House sits 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] [202 SOUTH STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.1063
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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-and-a-half story late Gothic Revival style home with front gable roof. Characteristic of the Gothic Revival style, the
home has multiple wall gables on its northern and southern elevations. The overhanging eaves with paired brackets, front porch,
segmentally arched windows, and the one story bay on the southern elevation are features of the up-and-coming Italianate style.
The front porch has been altered at least two times in this building’s history. Form B from 1979/1980 shows a full width Colonial
Revival style porch with Tuscan columns that wrapped around to the side wing on the northern elevation. Form B also noted that
this porch was added in the early 20th century. The current porch was added some time after 1980. This porch exhibits Italianate
style features with its low-pitched hipped roof, square posts and, solid frieze, and this porch may have closely resembled the
original porch. Windows on the home mostly have two over two sashes and stone stills. There is a brick chimney on the center
ridge of the roof of the main block of the house. There is a two story rear ell with back porch and barn in connected-farm plan.
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 1979 and 1980: “This house is almost identical I form to the one next south of it on South Street, although this
one was built of brick and the other of wood. They originally were the homesteads of two brothers, Marin and Edwin C. Clapp,
who were farmers and owned and cultivated large tracts of the best meadow land. In addition, they bought and sold horses and
established a large horse market. Edwin served on the Northampton Common Council and was president of Hampshire,
Franklin and Hampden County Agricultural Society.”
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. 180-P. 227