35 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-85 Easthampton NTH.2042
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 35 Graves Avenue
Historic Name: Frank & Ella Edwards House
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1884
Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl, wood shingles
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added and windows replaced, ca. 1990.
Condition: fair
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.093 acres
Setting: House faces north on a dead end,
residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [35 GRAVES AVE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2042
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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 is two-and-a-half stories in height under a side-gable roof with a prominent cross-gable bay on the façade. There is
a one-story bay window attached to the front-gable bay. It has a paneled base. In the angle of the two sections of the house is
a porch with unusual turned posts on high pedestals. The porch railing has turned balusters. There is a one-story bay window
on the east elevation of the house, and a rear, two-story ell. The design of this house follows a common pattern for the Queen
Anne style.
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 was the first house to be constructed on Graves Avenue. The street had been opened in 1884
through the Graves homestead on Market Street, and this house was built the same year for Frank Edwards, co-owner of the
Edwards Bros. grocery on Main Street. The street was primarily built up with double houses and rowhousing and by 1895 had
reached a state where the Gazette could proclaim it ‘our most citified street.’ This house is one of four, single-family houses on
the 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. 391- P. 390, 389-471