25 Williams 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
32C-259 Easthampton NTH.2165
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 25 Williams Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Two-family residence
Date of Construction: 1884-1895
Source: Atlases
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Clapboard
Roof: Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.101 acres
Setting: House faces east on a quiet residential street of
mid to late 19th century homes. A few shrubs line the
foundation of the home.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [25 WILLIAMS STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2165
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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 Queen Anne style home with a front gable roof facing the street and a cross gable roof on the rear,
southern elevation, which forms a shallow “T” plan. The house is three bays wide and three bays deep with the last two bays on
the northern and southern elevations of the home extending outwards to form the “T”. The home is clapboard sided and the
gable fields are ornamented with decorative shingles. A shed roof porch with turned posts and turned balusters extends across
the full width of the front façade. Decorative shingles on the spandrel match the gable field. Below the porch is a decorative
apron. A comparison of the porch in 2010 to the porch in 1980 shows that the turned posts originally had carved brackets.
Above the first floor porch is a smaller second story porch with center gable and matching turned posts and turned balusters.
Windows on the home are a mixture of two over one and one over one sash with flat stock surrounds. The cross gables feature
Queen Anne style multi-paned windows in the gable field. There is a brick chimney along the center ridgeline of the home.
Extending from the western elevation of the home is a sizable two-story rear ell with two-story screened porch on the southern
elevation that has turned posts for porch supports.
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: “This two-family house was constructed during the period when the remaining Hawley Street estates were
being subdivided to provide building lots. The expanding Belding Brothers and Company silk mill on Hawley Street provided the
impetus for rowhousing, two-family houses and worker’s cottages.”
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.