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Harrison Avenue 25.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 31A-209 Easthampton NTH.524 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 25 Harrison Avenue Historic Name: J.A. Sullivan House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1894-1895 Source: 1895 Atlas, Directory Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: B. H. Seabury, Springfield Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles, clapboard, strapwork Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.284 acres Setting: This is an east-facing house whose property has been carefully landscaped. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [25 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.524 __x_ 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. The Sullivan House is Queen Anne in style at its best. It is two-and-a-half stories under a hipped roof, which is the most common house form for Queen Anne in Northampton. Projecting from the hipped roof are cross gable bays on south, east and north. On the east façade the cross-gable bay is rounded and sits next to a stacked porch. On the first story the porch is wrap around and has a gazebo corner. It is supported on Ionic colonettes above high pedestals. The same colonettes support the smaller second story, screened-in porch. It has a flat roof beneath which is a broad frieze with festooning in relief. It has scalloped shingle solid railings. The same shingles appear in a band that wraps around the house between first and second stories. The front gable bay of the east has strapwork in its pediment to add to the many eye-catching surfaces of the house’s exterior. 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 1976: “Harrison Avenue was opened off Elm Street in the early 1890’s. Much of the property on the street belonged to J.A. Sullivan, who had his home built there in 1894-1895. The residence was designed by B. H. Seabury of Springfield, who later designed two commercial blocks in downtown Northampton. Northampton. B.H. Seabury began his career in Springfield as a draughtsman in the office of E. C. Gardner. Seabury had attended the special course in architecture at MIT from 187 to 1879 after working with an architect in his home, Newport, Rhode Island. Seabury was employed on the Brooklyn Bridge project until 1882, when he arrived in Springfield. His work in Springfield included commercial blocks, residences, schools and other public buildings. His other designs in Northampton are: Dewey Block, Pleasant Street; Hammond Block, Main Street; J. W. Hartwell House, Harrison Avenue.” 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. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [25 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.524 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a potential historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side streets laid out on the south side of Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of the development of Northampton from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for attendance at Smith College, and the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a shift from gentlemen’s estates to accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers. According to criterion C this district would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles are all well-represented within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time.