Fairfield Avenue 30.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 17C-176 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 30 Fairfield Avenue Historic
Name: Herbert Freeman House Uses: Present: Single-family dwelling Original: Single-family dwelling Date of Construction: ca. 1915 Source: atlas and directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate and asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Vinyl siding
applied, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.257 acres Setting: This house is on the west side of a dead end street. On its north side is a rail trail.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [30 Fairfield Avenue] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. ___ 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 one of two, originally identical houses on Fairfield Street, and it retains more of the original material than
its neighbor at #26. The Herbert Freeman House is one-and-a-half stories under a front-gambrel roof. It has a cross-gambrel wing on the north and an ell on the west for a T-shaped plan.
The front-gambrel section is two bays wide with an angled bay adjacent to a large, fixed-light window with muntins. Entry to the house is in the wing and its surround is obscured by
vinyl siding. There is a jetty between first and second floors and at second floor level on the east façade a centered window with its original 6/1 sash has a small fanlight window above
it. This house and its neighbor are representative of the Colonial Revival style of the 1920s as it was interpreted for contemporary family life. Both houses also represent the typical
design of a house built on speculation using commonly available plans. 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: ”Around the turn of the century, three streets were laid out north
of Main and Locust Streets in Florence: Plymouth, Fairfield and Summer Avenues. The streets extend northerly only a short distance to the railroad tracks. These two houses [#s 26 and
30] are the northernmost on the western side of Fairfield Avenue, and are virtually identical. The 1915 Directory lists Edward Murphy, foreman of the foundry at the Norwood Engineering
Co. and proprietor of Northampton Iron Works, both in Florence, and Herbert Freeman, superintendent of the braiding department at Nonotuck Silk Co., as living in these two houses.” 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.