Belmont Avenue 47.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: PVPC Date (month /year): October, 2010 Assessor’s
Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31D-26 Easthampton NTH.750 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 47 Belmont Avenue Historic Name: Franklin King House Uses:
Present: college dormitory Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1913 Source: Springfield Daily Republican, 1913 Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.146 acres Setting: House is located in a neighborhood of large college buildings, residences and residences converted to college use.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [47 BELMONT AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.750 ___ 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 one of the least altered of the Colonial Revival style houses of this neighborhood and
is a good example of the late version of the style. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a front-gabled roof whose eaves make full returns to create a pediment whose field is shingled.
First and second stories of the house are clapboard sided. A full-width porch crosses the east façade. It is supported by triple, half-length columns that rest on brick piers. Respondent
pilasters ornament the rear porch wall. A pediment on the porch roof marks the location of the stairs. Although the house is relatively simple and unornamented, it was given variety
and complexity of volume by the use of a shallow, three-sided bay on the second floor of the façade, a one-story square bay and a two-story three sided bay on the south elevation, and
a shed roof dormer on the roof. There is a one-story rear ell, as well. 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 the Form B of 1980, “This house was built at a cost of $4500 in 1913 for Franklin
King superintendent of buildings at Smith College. Belmont Avenue had been opened in the 1890s through some older homesteads between Green and West Streets. Ahwaga and Arnold Avenues
were also built at about the same time. During the early years of the 20th century these streets were built up residentially, mostly with Colonial Revival style houses.” BIBLIOGRAPHY
and/or REFERENCES Springfield Daily Republican, December 29, 1913.