218 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-211 Easthampton NTH.1066
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 218 South Street
Historic Name: Elizabeth Kingsley House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: c. 1905
Source: Atlas and visual evidence
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Clapboard
Roof: Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Removal of interior chimney (1980-2011)
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.351 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] [218 SOUTH STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.1066
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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 Colonial Revival style home with a truncated hip roof. The home has a two-and-a-half story entry pavilion at
its center with a gabled roof and Palladian style window with drip edge lintel at the half-story level. A hipped roof front porch
extends across the full width of the front façade. The porch has a solid frieze, spindle balustrade, and Tuscan columns that rest
on brick bases and are in pairs or triples. The tri-part front entry door has leaded sidelights and a glass and panel door. Windows
on the house are six over one sash and have flat stock surrounds with drip mold lintels. A tri-part window on the northern
elevation marks the location of the stairway. The house is clapboard sided and it has a wide frieze beneath the overhanging roof
eaves. The home has a brick exterior chimney on its southern end. There was originally a second brick interior chimney on the
northern slope of the roof, but this was removed at some point after the home was first inventoried in 1980.
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 was built early in the 20th century for Miss Elizabeth Kingsley. Miss Kingsley
formerly had been principal of the Center Street School in Northampton, but seems to have retired by 1915.”
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.