{"nrhp_refnum":"05000931","name":"Dorsey-Jones House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"191 Nonotuck St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Northampton","county":"Hampshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.33118349600005,"lon":-72.67113571899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-09-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1½-story Greek Revival upright-and-wing house at 191 Nonotuck Street in Florence, a village within Northampton, Massachusetts. Basil Dorsey bought the lot in November 1849 and the house was complete by August 1850.","why_significant":"The house is part of the Underground Railroad in Massachusetts multiple property listing. It is tied to Basil Dorsey and to the fugitive Thomas H. Jones, an author and minister whose escape story is told in the nomination. It is also an intact example of a modest mid-19th century dwelling type in a utopian-influenced mill village.","narrative":"Built between late 1849 and August 1850, this small Greek Revival house at 191 Nonotuck Street sits on a rise in Florence, a mill village in Northampton. Basil Dorsey bought the lot in the hillside development once called Bensonville, laid out near a cotton factory whose president helped found the Northampton Association of Education and Industry. The house follows the upright-and-wing plan, a modest, affordable type common among laboring families, with a front-gabled main block and a one-story kitchen wing. Its timber frame, plan and much of the interior survive beneath later aluminum siding and asphalt roofing, though the wing was extended in 1952 and the entry porch was removed in the 1960s. The house is part of a group of sites documenting the Underground Railroad in Massachusetts. Its story connects to Thomas H. Jones, who escaped slavery in North Carolina in 1849, reached Boston that October, and later wrote narratives of his life.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century, Greek Revival (upright-and-wing plan)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still a single dwelling. The upright section is largely intact, while the wing and some exterior and interior finishes were altered, including aluminum siding added around 1960.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.507318-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/7903/63790369/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/05000931.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000931/78a36a8188-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000931/78a36a8188-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NorthamptonMA_DorseyJonesHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NorthamptonMA_DorseyJonesHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790369","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsey%E2%80%93Jones_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5298892"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampshire-county/dorsey-jones-house-05000931/"}