64 Columbus Avenue
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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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): June, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
38B-136 Easthampton NTH.1043
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 64 Columbus Avenue
Historic Name: Rotus P. Harvey House
Uses: Present: Single Family
Original: Single Family
Date of Construction: 1894-95
Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas
Style/Form: Queen Anne / Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Clapboard & shingle
Roof: Slate & asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
One bay front gable garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows (circa 1990s)
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.16 acres
Setting: House among other large single family or former
single family homes in a well-established residential
neighborhood of turn-of-the century homes, which contains
mature trees throughout.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [64 COLUMBUS AVE ]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This is a two-and-a-half story home with pedimented front gable roof that is transitional in style from the Queen Anne to the
Colonial Revival styles. The small rounded modillions that grace the raking cornices of the gable is a Colonial Revival stylistic
feature while the front porch with its turned posts and cut-out brackets shows features of the Queen Anne style. This house is
clapboard sided on the first floor while the second floor and gables feature decorative wood shingle. The first story of the front
façade is divided into two sections but both are covered by a continuous hipped roof. At the eastern end is a three-sided bay and
at the western end is a screened half porch at the location of the front entry. The half porch has turned posts, cut-out brackets
and balustrade. The house retains its original window surrounds with drip edge lintels and sills, but the windows have been
replaced. A cross-gable caps a two-story shingled oriel on the western elevation. There is also a two story bay on the eastern
elevation. The property includes a one-bay front gable garage behind the home.
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: “A subdivision plan for Columbus Ave and 28 residential lots was filed in 1892. This was to be the fifth
street developed off of South Street atop the river terrace. The first four were Fort Street, Olive Street, High Street (now Lyman
Road), and Franklin Ave (now Munroe Street). Rotus Harvey, a carpenter, bought lot number 20 in 1894 and is first listed as
living here in the 1894-95 directory. He probably built the house himself. By 1900, he had moved to Fourth Ave, a small Street
off of Franklin Street in Northampton.”
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.