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17 Henshaw Avenue, also listed as 79 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 31B-201 Easthampton NTH.673 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 17 Henshaw Avenue, also listed as 79 Elm Street Historic Name: H. M. Burt House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1870 Source: Map & Atlas Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows replaced, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.938 acres Setting: This house is west-facing in a neighborhood of large college buildings, private residences and residences converted to college use. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [17 HENSHAW AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.673 _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. The Burt House is a relatively modest house stylistically. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof. It is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep. There is a one-story, angled bay window on the south elevation and one-and-a- half and one-story ells on the rear or east elevation. The house is Italianate in style with a full-width porch across the west façade supported on Italianate chamfered posts that are connected by a scroll-cut railing. The side-hall entry has an Italianate style door with arched glass panes above a paneled base and above the door is a large transom light. Windows at both first and second stories have projecting cornice lintels and at the attic level is a triple-arched Italianate window. There is one interior chimney on the asphalt shingled roof. 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: “During the late 1860’s, the western portion of C. N. Talbot’s estate on Prospect Street was subdivided into building lots. These lots were set out along the newly opened Henshaw Avenue. By 1873, five houses had been constructed, including this one. The house was shown with H.M. Burt listed as owner.” 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 ] [17 HENSHAW AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.673 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. The Burt House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor, Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years to the present. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect- designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Burt House is a modest example of the Italianate style. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.