39 Day 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: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
25A-140 Easthampton NTH.376
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 39 Day Avenue
Historic Name: Adelard Dauphinais House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1888-1895
Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows replaced with vinyl ca. 2000.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.541 acre
Setting: This is a south-facing house on a street of
19th century houses.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [39 DAY AVENUE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.376
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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 Queen Anne style house with more elaboration than many of its neighbors. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a
front-gable roof with a two-and-a-half story wing on its east elevation for a gable-and-wing form. The gable section of the house
is two-bays wide on the first story with a three-sided bay window adjacent to the main entry to the house. The wing is the
equivalent of two bays wide and is one bay deep. A porch extends from the main entry to cross the wing. It is on turned posts
with scroll-cut brackets at the eaves and has a lively jigsaw-cut railing. As is the case with many Queen Anne style buildings, its
lower stories are clapboard sided while its gable field is shingle-sided to create a visually active exterior. Sash in the windows is
replacement 1/1.
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: “This 2 ½ story, L-shaped house was constructed in the late 1880’s. Myron Day, a Northampton farmer,
purchased the homestead of James W. Clark on Bridge Street. In 1886, he filed a subdivision plan for lots off of a new street to
be called Beacon. The name was changed to Day Avenue to avoid confusion with Beacon Street in the Florence section of
Northampton. In 1888, Day sold Adelard Dauphinais 3 lots on the north side of the street for $700. Dauphinais was a carpenter
and probably built all three houses, reserving this house for himself. His son, Adelard Jr., also a carpenter, occupied another
house on Day Avenue (no. 25 in 1895), and Wilfred Dauphinais, a carpenter of unknown relation to Adelard, occupied still
another house on the north side of Day Avenue (no. 17 in 1895).”
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: Bk. 419-P. 394, 405-51