Lexington Avenue 13.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 30A-42 Easthampton NTH.424 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 13 Lexington Avenue Historic
Name: G. Hillenbrand House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1867-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen
Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Side porch enclosed,
windows replaced and altered, ca. 1900-2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.145 acres Setting: This house faces west and occupies a corner lot on a residential
street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [13 LEXINGTON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.424 ___ 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 one-and-a-half story house under a front-gabled roof, a simple plan and elevation that
was used frequently in Northampton during the last quarter of the 19th century for workers’ housing. Typical of that housing, it retains a slate roof. The house is three bays wide and
the equivalent of four bays deep and has a one-story ell on the east whose side porch has been enclosed. There is a full-width porch on the west façade that bears most of the Queen Anne
stylistic elaboration of the house. It has a pedimented entry and is supported on thin posts on high pedestals. There are ornamental brackets at the eaves above capitals on the posts.
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: “In 1879, George Hillenbrand, a Bay State Cutler, acquired lot #40 and this house for $1500. This was part of the residential subdivision filed
by the Bay State Hardware Company in 1867, and the house was constructed between this date and 1873, when it shows on the atlas with Mr. Hillenbrand’s name attached.” 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. 352-P. 431, 240-190