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14 Harrison Avenue Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph 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 31A-231 Easthampton NTH.543 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 14 Harrison Avenue Historic Name: Georgia Phinney House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1916 Source: Directory, Atlas, & SDR Style/Form: Arts and Crafts Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: stucco Roof: red tile Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.113 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house on a shady residential street. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [14 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.543 _x__ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. Northampton has a handful of Arts and Crafts style houses and this is one of the finest among them. It is a one-and-a-half story house with a through-cornice, shed-roof dormer across its west façade that raises it to a two-story level. The house has a side- gable roof with a red slate roof. The stucco-covered building has two-story wings on north and south and on the north an attached garage as well. In Arts and Crafts fashion, the house design has simplified lines, foregoing the furbelows of the previous Queen Anne period. Its west façade is composed at first floor level by a band of five windows with 9/12 sash and a side entry in a front-gabled enclosed portico. The entry door has a Craftsman style door with a round window above a paneled lower half. It is framed by an arched trellis that rests on brick bases. At second story level, the dormer windows consist of three 6/1 sash in the two outer bays and a single 6/1 sash in the center. Shutters are part of the composition framing all the windows of the house. There is an end-wall chimney on the north elevation and it has a pair of chimney pots at its top. The south wing has a two-story stair window of multiple lights illuminating the interior. 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 for Miss Georgia Phinney and her widowed mother in 1916 at a cost of $6000. Miss Phinney owned an art novelties shop on Main Street. Harrison Avenue had been opened as a street in 1890 and quickly became one of the most fashionable streets in Northampton. Most of the houses were built around the turn of the century and show the eclecticism of the period.” 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. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [14 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.543 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a potential historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side streets laid out on the south side of Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of the development of Northampton from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for attendance at Smith College, and the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a shift from gentlemen’s estates to accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers. According to criterion C this district would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles are all well-represented within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time. This is a particularly fine example of the Arts and Crafts style.