Harrison Avenue 78.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-220 Easthampton NTH.532 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 78 Harrison Avenue Historic Name:
Fred D. Cary House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1931 Source: Smith College Archives Style/Form: Architect/Builder: Karl
S. Putnam, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Attached garage Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.183 acres Setting: This house faces northwest on a quiet, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [78 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.532 __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. As the twentieth century progressed, architects working in the Colonial Revival style narrowed
their interpretations of the style more closely to the original Colonial antecedents. Earlier, the style enlarged the scale and proportions and exaggerated details by over-scaling them.
From about 1920 the Colonial Revival became more sedate and by the 1930s, it was almost archaeological, though room was provided for garages, furnaces, and other modern conveniences.
Karl Scott Putnam followed the latter track carefully as demonstrated in this house. It is two-and-a-half stories under a side-gable rather than a hipped roof and is five bays wide by
three bays deep. End wall chimneys lace through the roof eaves and there are several rear ells and an attached garage on the east and south. The center entry on the west façade is based
on Georgian precedent with engaged columns with high impost blocks supporting an open pediment that is trimmed with dentils. Within the surround a fanlight tops the paneled door. Windows
in the house have 6/6 sash. The house is shingle-sided and it has a one-story porch on the north elevation with a balustrade at its roofline. 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: “Fred Cary, the president of Kimball and Cary Co., coal and wood dealers on Main Street, Northampton, had a $10,000 house built for himself on this site in 1914. This was replaced
by the present house in 1931, from designs of Karl Putnam, Northampton’s most prominent architect of the 20th century.” 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 ] [78 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.532 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.