Columbus Avenue 41.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-147 Easthampton NTH.1050 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 41 Columbus Avenue
Historic Name: Ralph Clark house Uses: Present: Single family Original: Single family Date of Construction: 1905-1906 Source: Registry of Deeds and Street Directory 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: 0.13 acres Setting: House among other large single family or former single family homes in a well-established residential neighborhood of turn-of-the
century homes, which contains mature trees throughout.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [41 COLUMBUS AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1050 __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 Style home with truncated hipped roof and hipped
dormers. Corner pilasters with molded cornices and a wide frieze board under the roof eaves gives this home stylistic distinction from the basic four-square home that was also popular
around the turn of the century. The front entry is defined by a stacked porch. The first floor porch covers most of the front façade and then wraps around to the eastern side of the
home. The pitched hipped roof includes a full entablature supported by Tuscan columns and has a simple balustrade with square balusters. The second story porch has a pedimented roof
that is similarly supported by grouped Tuscan columns that rest on a solid balustrade. Storm windows cover original 2/2 sash windows. This clapboard sided house is topped by slate roof
and rests on a brick foundation. A brick exterior end chimney is located on the western elevation of home. 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 home was built on lot number
13 on the street proposed in 1892 by Elizabeth Clapp, heir to part of the Clapp family’s South Street homestead. It may have been built by James Twohig, the carpenter-builder who owned
the lot from May 1905 to September 1906.” This house has been owned by Sigrun Marroco since at least 1980 when this house was first included on the Inventory. 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. Registry of Deeds: Book 449-P.410, 483-335, 595-64, 610-16. Northampton Street Directory: 1906, 1915. 1915 Atlas