Henshaw Avenue 77.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 31B-84 Easthampton NTH.612 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 77 Henshaw Avenue Historic Name: Nicholas
G. Hayes House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1892 Source: Registry of Deeds, Atlas, & Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form:
Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles, half-timbering Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Gazebo Major
Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.346 0.346 acres Setting: This west-facing house sits on the crest of a hillside in a neighborhood of
late 19th, early 20th century homes.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [77 HENSHAW AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.612 _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. Queen Anne in style, this house is three-and-a-half stories in height and illustrates clearly the
stylistic features of the Queen Anne style. It has a side-gable roof with a cross-gable bay on the northwest corner, a four-story polygonal tower on the southwest corner, and a shallow
pavilion on the southeast corner. Tying all the elements together is a gazebo porch with a pedimented entry, which wraps across the west façade to the south elevation where it there
becomes a balustraded deck that crosses the south and wraps around to the east elevation. Porch supports are turned in an unusual bulky fashion. The porch has a spindle frieze and spindle
railings. The cross gable bay at second story level has a recessed open porch within a large arched opening. The first story of the house is clapboard sided and the upper stories are
shingle-sided. A band of wave shingles separates first and second stories and in gable ends is a faux half-timbering motif. This is a complex building with visually interesting changes
in materials and forms. 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 1892 for Nicholas G. Hayes at a cost of $8000. Mr. Hayes was the owner of a harness making
and trunk retailing concern on Main Street. Henshaw Avenue had been extended northerly in 1886 along the sides of Round Hill, and later received the name Crescent Street, due to it almost
completely encircling the hill. The street provided fine vistas eastward and quickly became one of the most fashionable in town. During the early 20th century, the house was owned an
occupied by Richard Irwin, a justice of the Superior Court.” 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.
438-P. 229
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [77 HENSHAW AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.612 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. The Hayes House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor,
Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few
gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years
to the present. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival
and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Hayes House is a fine example of the Queen Anne style.
This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.