50 Hubbard 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
25A-65 Easthampton NTH.367
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 50 Hubbard Avenue
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1891-1895
Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): windows replaced with 1/1
vinyl sash, ca. 2005.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.216 acres
Setting: This north-facing house occupies a corner lot in a
residential neighborhood near the Calvin Coolidge Bridge.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [50 HUBBARD AVENUE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.367
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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 occupies a corner lot that is at the crest of a slope, so it has visibility all along Hubbard Avenue. The house is two-
and-a-half stories in height under a front-gabled roof. It is three bays wide and four bays deep and has a two-and-a-half story ell
on its south elevation for a long, rectangular plan. It has a hipped roof porch across the north façade that is supported on Queen
Anne style turned posts with brackets at the eaves. The house has a one-story bay window on the east elevation and is neatly
trimmed with cornerboards and stringcourses in the north gable field marking off two separate patterns of wood shingles, a
Queen Anne feature.
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 2 ½ story, late 19th century house was built on two lots of J.W. Hubbard’s subdivision. Hubbard was
a market gardener who lived on Bridge Street. In 1891, he filed a plan to subdivide most of homestead into residential lots. In
1900, the plan was modified by adding a cross street. Today, the subdivision encompasses Hubbard Avenue and Marshall,
Swan and Crosby Streets. The house at 50 Hubbard Avenue was the first to be constructed in the subdivision, and occupies a
commanding site on a corner lot uphill from most of the rest of the subdivision.”
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. 439-P. 390 & 391, 535-110 & 111