23A-031 Park Street 67 Historical Inventory 2010FORM B ( BUILDING
Massachusetts Historical Commission
Massachusetts Archives Building
220 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, Massachusetts 02125
Photograph
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
23A-31
Easthampton
NTH. 171
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 67 Park Street
Historic Name: North School House
Uses: Present: two-family house
Original: part of schoolhouse
Date of Construction: ca. 1860
Source: History of Florence, Mass.
Style/Form: raised Cape
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles and metal
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): Wing added ca. 1900; portico added ca. 1900.
Condition: good
Moved: no | | yes | x | Date
Acreage: 0.397 acres
Setting: House faces west to the Park Street cemetery.
___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets.
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This is a one-and-a-half story raised Cape house that is five bays wide and two bays deep under a side-gable roof. There is a one-and-a-half story ell on the east side of the house with
two front-gabled dormers on its north and south elevations. On the south is a flat roofed wing of one-story, which has a three window band on its west elevation. The main block of
the house has a Greek Revival style wide frieze with a filet molding, and typical of the style, its roof has boxed eaves with returns. At the entry to the main block of the building
is a Colonial Revival style portico that is barrel vaulted and rests on posts with respondent pilasters. It was a later alteration to the house. There is an elliptical fanlight over
the door. The house is shingle sided and has a metal and asphalt shingle roof. Its interior chimney has been replaced by an end wall chimney.
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.
Erroneously called the Sojourner Truth House on the 1976 Inventory form, this house was originally part of the North Schoolhouse in Florence and was located where the War Memorial now
is. It was moved to make way for the Memorial.
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: Book 498 Page 329; Book 162 Page 476; Book 117 Page 21.