Graves Avenue 34-36.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-81 Easthampton NTH.2038 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 34-36 Graves Avenue Historic Name:
Charles Lamb House Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Four-family residence Date of Construction: 1891-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, siding added, ca. 2000. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.135 acres Setting: This is a south-facing house on a dead end residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [34-36 GRAVES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2038 ___ 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 four-family house is the only one of its design on Graves Avenue, although it was based on
a bay/shed roof porch module that appears relatively often in Northampton’s frame rowhouses. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a side gable roof. Two cross-gable bays project
from each end of the façade and set between them is a two-story, shed roof porch. The porch is supported at each story by posts with solid brackets at the eaves. At first floor level
the porch has a spindle frieze. Vinyl siding has meant the loss of much of the exterior texture of the building and replacement 1/1 windows contribute to that effect. What remains is
the scale of the building, which was generous even for a four-family. 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 1891, Charles Lamb, a principal in the Horace Lamb Wire Mfg.
Co. in town, bought lot no. 11 of the Graves subdivision. This plan was for Graves Avenue which was opened through the Graves homestead in 1884. The street was quickly developed and
in 1895, the Gazette termed it ‘our most citified street; because of its rowhousing and double houses. This double house was built before 1895 and has an upper and lower tenement on
each side.” BIBLIOGRAPHY and/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. 446-P. 435