30 Grant 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
25C-108 Easthampton NTH.390
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 30 Grant Avenue
Historic Name: Edson P. Clark tenant house
Uses: Present: Three-family residence
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: c. 1870
Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Studio apartment added, ca. 1990
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.177 acres
Setting: This house faces north on a dead end
street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [30 GRANT AVENUE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.390
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This house has the modest form and details of a tenant house, though its size is ample. It is a two-and-a-half story, front-gabled
house that has been vinyl-sided. It has a slate roof, so was well-built at the time of its construction and has a cross-gable on the
east, a two-and-a-half story ell on the south and an added studio on the south. The house is only two bays wide. It has a full-
width porch on the north that rests on Italianate style chamfered posts with high impost blocks. It has an Italianate style front
door with double arched glass panels above a wood paneled base. There is also an arched window in its gable end. The final
stylistic feature of note is the shallow oriel window on the east cross-gable. It has a flared roof and paired window sash. Sash in
the house varies from 6/6 to 2/2 and 1/1. The house has a side porch on the rear ell that rests on chamfered posts with brac kets
at the eaves.
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 house was built shortly after Grant Avenue was opened. The street first appears on the 1873 Atlas,
and was probably opened in the late 1860’s, with the name coming from the North’s victorious general. It was opened through
Nathan Clark’s Bridge Street estate and extended north to the rear lot lines of North Street. Edson P. Clark, who ran an
‘indelible pencil manufactory’ on Strong Avenue in Northampton, lived in Nathan Clark’s house on Bridge Street at the corner of
Grant Ave and probably had this house built for tenants.”
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. 420-P.101, 374-41