39-43 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-84 Easthampton NTH.2041
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 39-43 Graves Avenue
Historic Name: Armond and Edwardina Schillare House
Uses: Present: Four-family residence
Original: Four-family residence
Date of Construction: 1893-1895
Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Sided and windows changed, ca. 1990
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.135 acres
Setting: House faces north on a dead end residential
street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [39-43 GRAVES AVE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2041
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
In Northampton frame rowhouses were constructed at the turn-of-the-century for multi-family housing in often-imaginative Queen
Anne style. This rowhouse is two-and-a-half stories under a truncated hipped roof that has shared chimneys for the units.
Queen Anne in form, the building has a cross-gable bay centered on its fifteen bay façade. At each side, and separated by two
tall, narrow windows, are three-sided bays with polygonal roofs. The outer bays of the north façade have larger, single windows.
Three hipped roof porches cross the north façade. They are supported on idiosyncratic bulbous turned posts and have solid,
flared brackets at the eaves. Due to the vinyl siding and vinyl replacement windows, the Queen Anne exterior surface of the row
house has been obscured.
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: “Graves Avenue was laid out in 1884 through the Graves homestead on Market Street. This street was
quickly developed and in 1895 the Gazette called it ‘our most citified street’ because of the number of double, triple, and larger
houses lining both sides of its length.”
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. 456-P. 112