19 Audubon Road
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FORM B − BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Topographic or Assessor's Map
Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: PVPC
Date (month / year): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
10B-8-001 Easthampton NTH.10
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Leeds
Address: 19 Audubon Road
Historic Name: Luke Day House
Uses: Present: two-family residence
Original: single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1794
Source: Antiquities, Historical and Graduates, 1882.
Style/Form: no style
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
New England style horse barn
Major Alterations (with dates):
House converted to workers’ tenement, ca. 1880. Sided
and windows replaced, ca. 2000
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 9.8 acres (Northampton Assessors)
Setting: This house faces south and is set back from the
road on a large lot that is wooded on two sides.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [19 Audubon Road]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.10
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This house has been altered to the extent that its late 18th century origins are not readily identifiable from the exterior. It is a two-
and-a-half story, vinyl-sided house under a front-gabled roof. There is a two-story porch across the south façade with turned
posts and brackets at the eaves. At the second floor the porch has a square baluster railing. The Queen Anne style porch
probably dates from conversion of the house to a tenement in the 1880s though its elements may have changed over time. The
main block of the house is three bays wide and an equivalent of four bays deep and there are two one-story, clapboard-sided
ells on the north and a side porch on the east. The principal entry to the house on the south façade has rather broad pilasters
supporting an entablature that is not visible behind the porch. A second entry at the second floor has no surround. A third entry
is located on the west elevation at the first floor level under a shed roof on turned posts. Vinyl covers any surround.
Replacement vinyl windows are 12/12.
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 a 1980 Form B for this property, “During the last decade of the 18th century three families established themselves
along the road to Williamsburg west of the Mill River. These were James Smith (1790), Calvin Clark (1792) and Luke Day
(1794). The settlement was called Rail Hill, and in later years, after the harnessing of the Mill River near the junction of Roberts
Meadow Brook, and the growth of an industrial village there, became part of Leeds. Thus, this is the third homestead to be
established in this area. The homestead continued in the Day family with Jonathan Day, who lived there all his life. After his
death, ca. 1880, the house passed to the hands of the Nonotuck Silk Company, which probably used it for tenements.”
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.
Clark, S. Antiquities, Historical and Graduates of Northampton, 1882, Pp.162-165.