Graves Avenue 29.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 32A-87 Easthampton NTH.2044 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 29 Graves Avenue Historic Name: Andrew
Hancock House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1885-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows replaced ca. 1990 Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.135 acres Setting: This is a north-facing house on a dead end street of single and multi-family buildings.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [29 GRAVES AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2044 ___ 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 two-and-a-half story, front-gable house follows a plan that was often used for Queen Anne
style houses in Northampton at the turn-of-the-century. Now covered with vinyl, it has lost much of its stylistic character but some of the form remains. It is three bays wide and the
equivalent of four bays deep and has a two-story rear ell for a long, rectangular plan. There is a one-story angled bay on the west elevation. A full-width porch crosses the north façade.
It rests on turned posts. Windows in the house have been replaced with 1/1 sash and their surrounds are beneath the vinyl siding. 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: “In 1886,
Andrew Hancock, a printer with the Gazette Printing Company, purchased lot no. 10 of the Graves subdivision. This plan was for Graves Avenue, which had been opened in 1884, through the
Graves homestead on Market Street. By 1895, fourteen of the present fifteen houses had been erected, and they spanned the range of residential types leading the Gazette to proclaim this
‘our most citified street.’ This house is one of four single family houses on the street.” 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: Bk. 400-P. 473