Madison Avenue 24.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38B-158 Easthampton NTH.1058 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 24 Madison Avenue Historic
Name: Uses: Present: Single family residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: 1910-1915 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Shingle style Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Wood shingle Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Enclosed porch (1980-2010) Replacement windows
(1980-2010) Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.26 acres Setting: House sits in a quiet residential neighborhood and at the end of a dead end street of single family
homes or former single family homes that have been converted into multi-family housing.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [24MADISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1058 _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 two story Shingle style house with a gambrel roof. Characteristic of the Shingle style,
this house has shingle cladding, windows in bands of three that are twelve over one sash, a pent roof separating the first and second stories of the home, a full width shed roof dormer
at the second story level and an eyebrow dormer at the attic story level. The main block of the house is symmetrically arranged with a pedimented front entrance with Tuscan columns at
the center of the front façade. The front entrance features elaborate classical detailing that includes a leaded elliptical fanlight, leaded sidelights, and paneling. Unfortunately,
one of the home’s most distinguishing features has been lost since the home was first inventoried in 1980. Incorporated under the main roof of the home on the eastern elevation had been
a two-story porch that offered views of the Connecticut River Valley. The porch was enclosed after 1980 by an extension of the asphalt roof on the second story and shingle siding on
the first story and this enclosure throws off the home’s original symmetry. The home’s chimney, located on the eastern elevation, had been an exterior through-cornice chimney, but now
it is fully within the interior of the home. Other changes include new windows although they have retained the twelve over one sashes. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the
building. Explain its 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:
“A plan for Madison Avenue was filed in 1910. By 1915, all six houses which are standing today had been completed. This house is located on the northern side at the easterly end of the
short street. Its location gives it a commanding vista over Northampton’s meadows to the Holyoke Range across the Connecticut River.” 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: Plan Book 1-P.141