Harrison Avenue 39.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-212 Easthampton NTH.527 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 39 Harrison Avenue Historic Name:
Warren M. King House Uses: Present: Two-family house Original: Single-family House Date of Construction: 1895-1900 Source: Atlas & Directory Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes |
| Date Acreage: 0.294 acres Setting: This house faces east on a shady, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [39 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.527 _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 very large Colonial Revival style house two-and-a-half stories high under a hipped roof.
Providing the half story are pedimented dormers on all visible elevations. There is an end wall chimney on the north. On the east façade there are three dormers spaced evenly across
the roof. The outer dormers are pedimented and the center one has a broken swan’s neck pediment. The east façade is arranged with a rounded bay on the south, a center entry and at the
first story a Palladian window composition with straight lintels. At the second story next to the round bay, the center bay is occupied by a Palladian window composition framed by pilasters
followed by two windows with 1/1 sash. Pilasters frame the building and rise to an entablature beneath the eaves. A porch adjoins the rounded bay at first floor level. Three bays wide
it is supported on Doric columns. 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 in the late 1890’s for Warren M. King. Mr. King was the cashier of the Northampton
National Bank, and later became president of this bank, as well as becoming president and treasurer of the Norwood Engineering Co. in Florence. The house is possibly from designs of
R.F. Putnam, Putnam, a well-known, local architect of the turn-of-the-century who specialized in Colonial designs, and was responsible for several other houses on Harrison Avenue. The
street was opened in 1890 and quickly became on of the most fashionable streets 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [39 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.527 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.