1-3 Glendale 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
24D-261 Easthampton NTH.351
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 1-3 Glendale Avenue
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: two-family house
Original: two-family house
Date of Construction: 1895-1915
Source: atlases
Style/Form: Panel Brick
Architect/Builder: Daniel Lynch, mason, attr.
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick/concrete
Wall/Trim: brick
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): Portion of porch bricked-
in, ca. 1970.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.121 acres
Setting: This is a south-facing house on a dead end street
with a wooded area to the west.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [1-3 Glendale Avenue]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 1
NTH.351
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The duplex at 1-3 Glendale Avenue, is modestly in the Panel Brick style, which is a masonry version of the Queen Anne style. It
is constructed in brick using brick ornamentally laid, tarred and mixed with terra cotta to create in masonry the visual liveliness of
a frame Queen Anne house with shingles, clapboards and other trim. Like its neighbors, however, at 9-11 and 15, the brick
ornamentation is relatively scant suggesting the builder was conscious of the trend in architecture away from ornament to
cleaner lines, geometric shapes and simpler forms. This house is nearly square in plan under a hipped roof with a single front
dormer. It is three bays wide and the equivalent of five bays deep and has a two-story, stacked porch in its center entry bay.
The porch has been bricked-in on the first story but remains screened-in on the second story and its roof supported on triple,
half-length columns resting on shingled piers . The brick of the main block of the building has stringcourses of tarred bricks that
also cross above the segmentally arched windows as lintels. Sash in the windows is a characteristic 2/2, but also has 1/1
replacement sash.
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, which covered both 9-11 and 1-3 Glendale Avenue: “These two duplex houses were built around the turn-
of-the-century on a short street north of Round Hill. Daniel Lynch, a mason and builder who lived on Crescent Street just up the
hill from here was the probable builder. His own residence is of brick with similar detailing. There’s also a four tenement, brick
block on this street that Mr. Lynch probably constructed.”
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.