24-30 Graves 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
32A-79 Easthampton NTH.2036
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 24-30 Graves Avenue
Historic Name: Adislas Tetreault House
Uses: Present: Five-family residence
Original: Four-family residence
Date of Construction: 1887
Source: Hampshire Gazette, 1887
Style/Form: eclectic
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, siding
replaced; side porches added and front porch replaced, ca.
2005.
Condition: good
Moved: no | | yes | | Date
Acreage: under one acre
Setting: This is a south-facing building on a dead end,
residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [26-28 GRAVES AVE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2036
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
With changes in siding and porches this four-family house was changed from a Colonial Revival style house to a contemporary
“Queen Anne”. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a hipped roof with wide eaves overhangs that were inspired by the
Prairie style at the time the house was constructed. There are cross-gable bays on east and west and in the angle of the bays
and the main block of the house are added shed roof porches on thin turned posts. A front porch of two-stories occupies the
center bay of the three-bay façade. It also has the thin, turned posts and shed roof. The exterior of the house has been vinyl
sided in patterns.
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: “In 1886, Adislas Tetreault, a carpenter, bought lot no. 7 of the Graves subdivision plan for $900. By the
end of the next year this four-tenement, wood frame block had been constructed at a cost of $4800. Mr. Tetreault occupied one
of the tenements himself and leased the others. By 1895, fourteen of the present fifteen structures had been erected,
representing the entire range of residential types, and causing the Gazette to proclaim this ‘our most citified street.’”
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. 403-P. 13