Columbus Avenue 35.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38B-146 Easthampton NTH.1049 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 35 Columbus Avenue
Historic Name: Uses: Present: Two family Original: Single family Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation:
Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: One bay garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.2 acres
Setting: House among other large single family or former single family homes in a well-established established residential neighborhood of turn-of-the century homes, which contains mature
trees throughout.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [35 COLUMBUS AVE.] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1049 __X_ 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 two-and-a-half story Colonial Revival home built between 1895 and 1915. The asymmetrically
massed home is under a cross gabled roof with a projecting pedimented gable with molded cornice and wide frieze facing the street. A replacement window in the gable field is framed with
classical entablature. The clapboard sided house has a partial-width front porch with low hipped roof that wraps around to eastern elevation of the home. The porch has paired Tuscan
columns that rest on high brick piers, a wide frieze, a balustrade of square balusters, and a lattice apron. A smaller porch with shed roof is located directly above the front entry,
but was enclosed at some point in the 20th century erasing its original architectural features. The northwest corner of the front façade is clipped and, defined by corner boards, loosely
forms a two story three-sided bay. The house has some original one over one sash windows that are covered by metal storm windows. Windows are framed by simple flat stock surrounds with
drip edge lintels and sills. Two decorative multi-colored, multi-glazed windows are located above one another on the first and second floors near the angle formed by the main block of
the house and the eastern cross-gable. There is a brick chimney at the intersection of the gables at the center of the home. The house rests on a high brick foundation and is covered
by a slate roof. The property includes a one bay garage to the rear of the house. 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 Form B of 1980, “This house was built around the turn of the century on
lot 9 of the Columbus Avenue subdivision. The plan was filed in 1892, but few houses were constructed on the western side of the street in the early years.” 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. 1915 Atlas Registry of Deeds: Book 449-P.410