Graves Avenue 32.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-80 Easthampton NTH.2037 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 32 Graves Avenue Historic Name: Phelix
& Delia Tardiff House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1889-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Phelix Tardiff, builder Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles, clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major
Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.135 acres Setting: This is a south-facing building on a dead end, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [32 GRAVES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2037 ___ 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 Queen Anne house with a steeply-pitched, front-gable roof. It has
cross gables on both east and west elevations and a two-and-a-half story rear ell. It has a porch on turned posts with high pedestals and scroll-cut brackets at the eaves that crosses
the south façade and wraps around to the west. There is also a side porch on the ell with the same posts posts and turned baluster railings. The porches have lattice aprons. One bay
of the side porch has been filled in. The cross gable bays have braces with pendants at their second story angles and the first floor of the house is clapboard-sided, the second is shingle-sided
in a staggered butt pattern. This house is representative of the Queen Anne style that was constructed by builders most often using plans from pattern books that proliferated after 1870.
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 1899, Phelix Tardiff, a carpenter, purchased lot no. 9 of the Graves subdivision for $900. This plan was for Graves Avenue, which had been
opened through the Graves homestead on Market Street in 1884. By 1895, the street had become lined with fourteen of the present fifteen buildings; all residential and spanning the range
of building types. There were several rowhouses, as well as double houses, and four single houses. This was one of the single-family houses and was constructed by Mr. Tardiff for his
own residence.” 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. 422-P. 443