Harrison Avenue 35.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-211 Easthampton NTH.526 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 35 Harrison Avenue Historic Name:
W.K. Staab House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1890-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles, clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no |
x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.196 acres Setting: This house faces east on a shady, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [35 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.526 _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. This is a Queen Anne house that has been extremely well-maintained and preserved. It is two-and-a-half
stories in height and has a front-gabled roof with a cross-gable bay on the north. The eaves of the front gable make full returns to form a pediment. The east façade is composed of an
angled, three-sided bay window that rises two stories to the pediment, and an adjacent two bays of door and window behind a stacked porch. On the first floor the porch is a wraparound
with a round corner. At the second story it is two-bays wide under a hipped roof with a spindle frieze, turned posts and a low, spindled railing above shingles. The first story porch
repeats the turned posts and spindle frieze, but its railing is an ornamental jigsaw-cut pattern. The house is sided in clapboards with a shingle band separating first and second stories.
Shingles also fill the front gable and the upper story of the cross-gable bay. 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 William Staab during the early
1890’s. Mr. Staab was a merchant tailor on Main Street. Harrison Avenue was opened in 1890 by J.C. Hammond and J.A. Sullivan and quickly became considered one of the most ‘aristocratic’
streets in the city. By 1895, nine houses had been constructed and most of the others were built early n the 20th century. The eclecticism in design of the turn of the century period
is well demonstrated on this street.” 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] [35 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.526 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.