15 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-263 Easthampton NTH.352
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 15 Glendale Avenue
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Four-family residence
Original: Four-family residence
Date of Construction: 1895-1915
Source: Atlases
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Daniel Lynch, builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.213 acres
Setting: This house faces south on a dead end street next
to a wooded area.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [15 GLENDALE AVENUE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.352
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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 brick building with a hipped roof. It is six bays wide and two bays deep and has two interior
chimneys. Rough-faced brownstone is used to create Colonial Revival style quoins at the building’s corners and as a water
table, beltcourse, and double as window lintels and sills. Windows in the building are segmentally arched and have a mixture of
2/2 (original) and 1/1 (replacement) sash. Centered on the south façade is a two-story porch supported on columns on the first
floor and posts on the second. The porch has solid shingle railings and shingle is used again on the single pedimented dormer
centered on the roof. Between the houses at 1-3 and 9-11 and this house at 15 Glendale Avenue, their common builder can be
seen to have shifted his stylistic goals from Panel Brick to Colonial Revival.
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 four tenement block was built around the turn-of-the-century on a short street off of Prospect Street
just north of Round Hill. Daniel Lynch, a mason and builder who lived on Crescent Street just up the hill from here is the
probably builder. His own residence is of brick with similar detailing. There are two brick duplex houses 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.