54-56 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-161 Easthampton NTH.377
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 54-56 Day Avenue
Historic Name: J. Deady House
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1886-1895
Source: Atlas of 1895
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added and windows replaced, ca. 1990
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.165 acre
Setting: This house faces north on a residential
street of late 19th c. houses.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [54-56 DAY AVENUE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.377
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The J. Deady House was built by 1895 and is a large, two-and-a-half story house with a front-gable roof and a substantial cross-
gable bay on the east elevation. The main block of the house is three bays wide and is traversed on the north by a full-width,
hipped roof porch that rests on relatively heavy posts that have narrow molding bands below scroll-cut brackets. Elements of
this porch are repeated on the cross-gable bay where a secondary porch crosses the north façade. It has a balustrade on its
roof made of square-cut balusters between posts. This house had been vinyl sided and had its windows replaced so it has lost
some of its historical character but its slate roof and two tall chimneys testify to its original solid construction and its porches
suggest that it was well-ornamented ca. 1895.
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 large, clapboard house was built early in the twentieth century on a short street laid out for
subdivision by Myron Day in 1886.”
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.