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Crescent Street 241.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: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31A-48 Easthampton NTH.472 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 241 Crescent Street Historic Name: Dr. Frank Dow House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1912 Source: Atlases and Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.159 acre Setting: This is an east-facing house on a quiet, residential street. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [241 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.472 _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. The Frank Dow House is a brick, Colonial Revival style house under a side-gable roof with two end wall chimneys projecting through the roof eaves and a third chimney behind the ridge line. The roof also has a centered, wood, front-gabled dormer with a Palladian window composition as its fenestration. The two-and-a-half story house is three bays wide and has a center trabeated entry sheltered by a portico on Doric columns with respondent Doric pilasters at the façade wall. At each side of the entry is a window composition that has been altered from a triple window composition to four, single-glazed openings. At the second story level windows have not been altered and pairs of 4/4 sash flank a triple window composition consisting of three openings with 4/4 sash united by a scrolled wooden sill. The house has a one-story porch across its south elevation supported by Doric columns. This is a relatively common house form and style and appears on a number of Northampton’s residential streets. 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 for Dr. Frank Dow, a physician, in 1912 at a cost of $7500. Crescent Street had been laid out in 1886 along the middle slopes of Round Hill, but the the section south of Bancroft Road was not developed until the early 20th century.” 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. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [241 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.472 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Dow House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor, Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years to the present. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Dow House is a fine example of the Colonial Revival style. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.