Arnold Avenue 16.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31D-63 Easthampton NTH.755 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 16 Arnold Avenue Historic Name: Eliza
Marindin House Uses: Present: 6 apartments college housing Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne/Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): vinyl siding added, porch replaced, trim
removed from eaves, 2009. Windows replaced pre-2009. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.193 acres Setting: The last house on a dead end street, this building is
close to the Smith College Engineering Building.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [16 ARNOLD AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.755 ___ 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. The Eliza Marindin House is transitional stylistically between the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival
styles, and is the best preserved of the houses on Arnold Avenue, but the strength of its style has been lessened by the recent application of vinyl siding, replacement porch, and replacement
windows. This is a large house, two-and-a-half stories in height beneath a steeply pitched hipped roof, often used in Northampton on Colonial Revival style houses. To add to its volume
there is a front-gabled pavilion centered on its north façade and transverse gable bays on its east and west elevations, along with a south two-and-a-half story south ell. The complicated
volume of the house is an aspect of the Queen Anne style as are the 6/1 window sash in the two front dormers on the roof. The north façade of the house is only three bays wide, a feature
of the Colonial Revival style as proportions enlarged considerably during the Colonial Revival stylistic period. A stacked porch crosses the full width of the façade at the first floor
level and is one bay wide at the second floor. It is supported on posts and both posts and railings are replacements of earlier columns, pedestals and railings. At the second floor,
a door in the pavilion exits to the porch. The door has a Queen Anne style hood on consoles and a Queen Anne style side porch on its rear ell. Colonial Revival style modillion blocks
that ornamented the eaves previously have been removed. 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. According to the 1980 form: “Arnold Avenue was said out in the late 1890s through the West Street homestead
of Colonel J. Parsons. It was a short dead end street with four of the present six houses erected by 1915 and the other two by 1930. This house first appears on the 1915 atlas with the
first known occupant being Mrs. Eliza Marindin, who is listed here in the 1922 directory.” Eliza Marindin in 1910 lived in Northampton on Waverley Avenue with her four children, her
mother, four boarders and two servants and presumably the boarders furnished a portion of their income as Eliza, a widow, did not work outside the house. By 1922 Eliza and two of her
children had moved to Arnold Avenue and shared this house with two servants, a Jamaican maid Emma Dixon and an Irish cook Catherine Curran. Interestingly, Eliza, Emma and Catherine all
worked in a boarding house while Josephine was an at-home maid. This house was not the boarding house, rather, Eliza was the matron of one, while Emma and Catherine worked with her,
and daughter Josephine ran this house. By 1930 Eliza no longer appears in the census in Massachusetts, but Josephine has become a dietician and lives in Manhattan. 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. Registry of Deeds, Book 8738 Page 129. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of
Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.