Highland Avenue 23.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 25C-193 Easthampton NTH.405 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 23 Highland Avenue Historic Name:
Hervey Wright House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asphalt shingles and faux brick Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding applied, some
windows replaced, ca. 1940-1970. Condition: good-fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.132 acres Setting: This is a north-facing house on a narrow residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [23 HIGHLAND AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.405 ___ 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 house was originally identical to the house at 31 Graves Avenue, yet both are an uncommon
plan and elevation. It is two-and-a-half stories under a side-gable roof with a prominent cross-gable on the front façade. So far, that is not an unusual elevation, however, the house
also has a shallow wing on the west whose gable roof is attached off-center to the main block of the house. It is rectangular at the second story and angled at the first story and between
stories are arched braces. Windows in the angled bay are Queen Anne with multiple pane borders. In the angle of the two sections of the house on the north façade is a shed roof porch
on which is a front-gabled dormer with a pointed window with Queen Anne sash. The porch has turned posts, spindle frieze and a jigsaw-cut railing. There is also a one-story bay window
on the cross-gable section of the house. 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: “Highland Avenue was opened through the Charles Steven’s property between 1884 and 1895. This was
the northernmost of the streets which cut through the colonial homesteads on Market and North Streets. These streets, as the homesteads had, extended easterly to the Bridge Street Cemetery.
This house first appears on the 1895 atlas as property of Hervey Wright, a mason. It’s possible that Mr. Wright built this house himself.” 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.