West Center Street 26-28.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 Please see attached map. Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning
Commission Date (month /year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 23A-48 Easthampton NTH.175 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address:
26-28 West Center Street Historic Name: Graves Brothers House Uses: Present: two-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1873-1884 Source: maps of 1873 and 1884
Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick and granite Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Converted to two-family with additional entry on west elevation ca. 1900. Condition: Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.39 acres Setting: This house is on a narrow,
residential street lined with mainly 19th century houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [26-28 WEST CENTER STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. 175 ___ 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 one of the few brick houses in Florence’s center. It is a two-and-a-half story building
under a side-gable roof. It is set sideways on its lot so that entries are located on both its eastern and western elevations. Somewhat utilitarian in appearance, the house has a corbelled
cornice beneath its eaves, an arched Italianate window in its north gable and straight granite lintels at its windows. The house is three bays wide and two bays deep and windows have
6/6 sash. There are two interior chimneys at the roof ridge. The added entry on the east is clapboard-sided and is one story in height. Its original entry is on its west elevation and
is brick and one-story in height. 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. According to the inventory Form B of 1976, ”Florence developed in the mid-nineteenth century as a manufacturing center and
progressive community. The Northampton Association of Education and Industry, a utopian community (1841-1847), was important in the village’s growth and orientation.” This property was
dated ca. 1850 on the earlier form, but a check of the map of 1873 shows that the property was un-built upon at that date and owned by J. Birge. It wasn’t until 1884 that this building
appears as the property of the Graves Brothers. At the time the atlas of 1895 was drawn, the Graves brothers had added a livery stable to the property on its east side. That building
is now gone. 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [26-28 WEST CENTER STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH. 175