Dorsey-Jones House

Dorsey-Jones House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Northampton, Massachusetts
Coordinates
Built	1849
Architectural style	Greek Revival
MPS	Underground Railroad in Massachusetts MPS
NRHP Reference #	05000931
Added to NRHP	September 2, 2005

The Dorsey-Jones House is a historic house at 191 Nonotuck Street in the Florence area of Northampton, Massachusetts that served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.

The 1.5 story house was built in 1849 for Basil Dorsey, an African American who escaped slavery in 1836 with abolitionist help. It follows a plan known as "upright and wing", a common building plan of the period that was often used for millworker housing. The lot on which it was built was purchased from the Bensonville Manufacturing Company, the silkmaking business of abolitionist George Benson. The Dorsey family lived in the house until 1852, when it moved to another Florence house. This house was purchased in 1854 by Mary Jones, the wife of Thomas H. Jones, another escaped slave and antislavery activist. An itinerant preacher, Jones was rarely present, and the family moved from Florence to Worcester in 1859.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

See also

• Ross Farm (Northampton, Massachusetts), another Underground Railroad site associated with George Benson
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, Massachusetts