14-20 Highland 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
25C-185 Easthampton NTH.403
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 14-20 Highland Avenue
Historic Name: C.E. Stevens Apartments
Uses: Present: Apartments
Original: Apartments
Date of Construction: ca. 1890
Source: Atlases, visual evidence
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl, wood shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles and metal
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding applied, windows replaced, porches altered and
doors replaced, ca. 1980-2000.
Condition: fair-poor
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.131 acres
Setting: This is a south-facing building on a
narrow residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [14-20 HIGHLAND AVENUE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.403
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This is a two-and-a-half story house under a pyramidal hipped roof with three-story towers under bell-shaped roofs at its
southwest and southeast corners. On the south façade between the two towers is a two-story, stacked porch under a shed roof
and resting at both stories on half-length, fluted posts. Railings are solid shingle-sided. On the first story level the porch leads to
four entries in a row with four, faux-historical doors. Centered above the porches on the south façade is a cross-gable dormer.
To add complexity to the Queen Anne style house there are two cross-gable bays on both the east and west elevations of the
house. The cross-gable bays nearer the south are gabled and the ones on the north end are hipped. The upper story of the
building is wood shingle sided and the first story is vinyl-sided with both vertical and horizontal siding.
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 1976: “C. E. Stevens owned a homestead on North Street to the rear of which Highland Avenue was opened in
the period 1885-1895. Stevens owned three lots on the new street and built a shingle style apartment block on the westernmost
of the lots in 1895.”
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.