Columbus Avenue 58.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-135 Easthampton NTH.1042 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 58 Columbus Avenue
Historic Name: Wilbur F. & Jennie A. Knowlton Uses: Present: Two family residence Original: One family residence Date of Construction: 1895 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form:
Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Asbestos shakes Roof: Slate & asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Window replacement (1996) Asbestos siding (mid 20th century) Enclosed porch (mid 20th century) Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.17 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] [58 COLUMBUS AVE ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH 1042 _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 hipped roof and hipped dormers.
The full width front porch is partially enclosed, which occurred in the mid 20th Century according to Form B of 1980. The porch has Tuscan columns, balustrade, a solid frieze, and a
lattice apron. A smaller enclosed porch with hipped roof is on the second floor directly above the centrally located front entry. The house includes two brick chimneys. All windows on
the house were replaced in 1996, but the owner kept the original surrounds. Similar to other homes in this neighborhood, the house has a brick foundation. 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: “Columbus Ave and 28 lots were proposed in 1892. The street was opened off of South Street and extended southeasterly to the edge of the bluff overlooking the meadows.
East Street was lengthened at this time from its Munroe Street end southerly across Columbus Ave to Fort Street. In early 1895, Jennie Knowlton purchased this northeast corner lot of
Columbus Ave and East Street. The 1895-96 Directory lists Wilbur Knowlton, a professional photographer, as living here.” This house was owned by Doris Rouleau in 2010 and she also owned
the house in 1980 when the house was first add to Northampton’s inventory of historic homes. 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.