Graves Avenue 39-43.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-84 Easthampton NTH.2041 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 39-43 Graves Avenue Historic Name:
Armond and Edwardina Schillare House Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Four-family residence Date of Construction: 1893-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form:
Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Sided and
windows changed, ca. 1990 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.135 acres Setting: House faces north on a dead end residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [39-43 GRAVES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2041 ___ 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. In Northampton frame rowhouses were constructed at the turn-of-the-century for multi-family housing
in often-imaginative Queen Anne style. This rowhouse is two-and-a-half stories under a truncated hipped roof that has shared chimneys for the units. Queen Anne in form, the building
has a cross-gable bay centered on its fifteen bay façade. At each side, and separated by two tall, narrow windows, are three-sided bays with polygonal roofs. The outer bays of the north
façade have larger, single windows. Three hipped roof porches cross the north façade. They are supported on idiosyncratic bulbous turned posts and have solid, flared brackets at the
eaves. Due to the vinyl siding and vinyl replacement windows, the Queen Anne exterior surface of the row house has been obscured. 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: “Graves Avenue
was laid out in 1884 through the Graves homestead on Market Street. This street was quickly developed and in 1895 the Gazette called it ‘our most citified street’ because of the number
of double, triple, and larger houses lining both sides of its length.” 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:
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