Columbus Avenue 64.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-136 Easthampton NTH.1043 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 64 Columbus Avenue
Historic Name: Rotus P. Harvey House Uses: Present: Single Family Original: Single Family Date of Construction: 1894-95 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne /Colonial
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard & shingle Roof: Slate & asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: One bay front gable garage Major
Alterations (with dates): Windows (circa 1990s) Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.16 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 ] [64 COLUMBUS AVE ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH 1043 __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 home with pedimented front gable roof that is transitional in style
from the Queen Anne to the Colonial Revival styles. The small rounded modillions that grace the raking cornices of the gable is a Colonial Revival stylistic feature while the front porch
with its turned posts and cut-out brackets shows features of the Queen Anne style. This house is clapboard sided on the first floor while the second floor and gables feature decorative
wood shingle. The first story of the front façade is divided into two sections but both are covered by a continuous hipped roof. At the eastern end is a three-sided bay and at the western
end is a screened half porch at the location of the front entry. The half porch has turned posts, cut-out brackets and balustrade. The house retains its original window surrounds with
drip edge lintels and sills, but the windows have been replaced. A cross-gable caps a two-story shingled oriel on the western elevation. There is also a two story bay on the eastern
elevation. The property includes a one-bay front gable garage behind the 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: “A subdivision plan for Columbus Ave and 28 residential
lots was filed in 1892. This was to be the fifth street developed off of South Street atop the river terrace. The first four were Fort Street, Olive Street, High Street (now Lyman Road),
and Franklin Ave (now Munroe Street). Rotus Harvey, a carpenter, bought lot number 20 in 1894 and is first listed as living here in the 1894-95 directory. He probably built the house
himself. By 1900, he had moved to Fourth Ave, a small Street off of Franklin Street in Northampton.” 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.