Harrison 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 31A-210 Easthampton NTH.525 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 29 Harrison Avenue Historic Name:
M. Dowey House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1892 Source: Registry of Deeds, Atlas & SDR Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Porch partially enclosed, ca. 1950;
windows replaced, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.196 acres Setting: This is an east-facing house on a quiet, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [29 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.525 __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 clapboard-sided Dowey House is a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne house. It has a hipped roof
with cross-gable bays on north and south and a centered, front-gable dormer. The dormer extends slightly on to the shed roof of a stacked porch. The porch at first floor level originally
wrapped from east around to the north but sections at each end have been enclosed so now it only rests on two turned posts. The second story of the porch is centered on the three-bay
façade. It is scallop shingle-sided, is one bay wide, has turned posts and a row of spindles crosses the solid shingle railing. In the spandrels of the porch roof is a carved star ornament
in a checkerboard pattern. Above the porch, the dormer has scalloped bargeboards. 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: “This house was built for Mrs. M.A. Dowey in 1892 at a cost
of $6000. It’s uncertain where she ever lived here, however, and by 1895, the property was occupied by John Ross, who lived here into the 1920’s. Mr. Ross was a grocer who developed
a wholesale grocery system n Northampton early in the 20th century. Harrison Avenue was opened in 1890 by J.C. Hammond and J.A. Sullivan along with Kensington Avenue and Dryads Green.
His area quickly became one of the most ‘aristocratic’ areas in the city.” 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. 449-P. 411
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [29 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.525 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.