Norwood Avenue 57.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 30B-5 Easthampton NTH.430 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 57 Norwood Avenue Historic
Name: Willis Blakesley House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1890 Source: Atlas and Directory Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: concrete and brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate, asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Shed Major Alterations
(with dates): Garage added ca. 1950 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.397 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot that slopes down and away to the south
and west.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [57 NORWOOD AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.430 ___ 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-gable roof with a kitchen wing of one story
on the south followed by a one-story garage. As the land slopes down and away to the south, the garage of one-and-a-half stories is below the level of the main block of the house. The
house is three bays wide and has a full-width porch across its west façade. The hipped roof of the porch porch is supported on posts and there are small brackets at the eaves. Siding
on the house is clapboard at the first floor and shingles in the gable fields for a modest Queen Anne style. It rests on brick foundations. The one-story wing on the south is four bays
wide and is not set back from the plane of the façade, rather, its extends directly from the main façade. There is also a one-story shed roofed ell on the east. 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: “Norwood Avenue was laid out in two sections. The first, in 1872, was from Main Street (now Riverside Drive) northerly to a ‘proposed street’ (a paper extension
of the present Wood Avenue). The second section, in 1883, was from the proposed street northerly to Warner Street. This house was built at the southeast corner of Norwood Avenue and
Warner Street between 1884 and 1895. The first known owner was Willis Blakesley, an employee of the Northampton Cutlery Company, who was first listed here in 1892.” 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.