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45 Kensington 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: PVPC Date (month / year): January, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31A-238-001 Easthampton NTH.2456 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 45 Kensington Avenue Historic Name: Henry C. and Carrie Kellogg House Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1910 Source: Northampton Street Directories Style/Form: altered Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): North wing extension, ca. 1920; replacement sash, ca. 1960. Condition: good Moved: no | X | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.116 acres Setting: House faces east on well-developed residential and institutional street in Northampton Center. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [45 KENSINGTON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2456 __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. This is a stylistically idiosyncratic house. It is a two-and-a-half story, east-facing house with a front-gable roof. The main block of the house under the gabled roof is only two bays wide, but there is a two-story shed roof wing on its north elevation, flush with the main block, that adds to the façade an additional bay. The second story of the wing extends beyond its first story on th e north, and the overhang is supported by braces. There is, in addition, a transverse gable on the wing. The side entry to the main block of the house is preceded by a pedimented porch, one bay wide, which rests on turned Queen Anne style posts. Adjacent to the porch and entry at the first floor level is a three-part window composition under a single capped lintel. The windows have 1/1 sash. The house has brick foundations, clapboard siding and an 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. The house at 45 Kensington Avenue was not among the very first houses to be built on Kensington Avenue, as it was not in place at the time the atlas of 1895 was drawn. The street had been put in in 1890 by a Northampton developer Charles Crouch. Several lots sold right away, but most had been sold by 1900 and houses constructed on them. There was a market for new houses in Northampton during this period as the population grew by 113.1% between 1870 and 1915. Cutlery and brush factories and textile mills brought new residents, as did Smith College. With the rise in population came more services in the community from doctors and dentists to dressmakers and salesmen. Nevertheless, at least five of the houses that Crouch built on the street prior to his death in 1901 were two-family houses rather than single-family. This house had owners prior to Henry and Carrie Kellogg who were here by 1929 but none of them occupied the house as long as the Kelloggs who were in it through 1960. Previously in 1919 Ella, and Ernest Williams and their daughter Dr. Maude Williams rented the house. Ella was considered head of the household and Ernest worked as an agent for the Chase nurseries selling nursery stock, much of which would have gone to landscaping the new homes in this section of Northampton. Maude was an osteopathic physician. The Williams family around 1925 bought a house, and moved to Crescent Street. It is then that they were replaced by the Kelloggs. Henry Kellogg was a Northampton dentist with an office at 184 Main Street. He was still at that office over thirty years later in 1959, joined in practice by Dr. Roger P. Kellogg. Roger and his wife Norma shared this house as well as the office with Henry, who had by 1952 re-married a Lucy Kellogg. Henry and Lucy were still in the house in 1960. Though it had not the turnover that some of the two-family houses on Kensington Avenue had, the several families that have lived in the house have been representative of the city of Northampton and its growth during the late Industrial period. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Massachusetts Historical Commission. Reconnaissance Reports, “Northampton”, 1982. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895. Northampton Directories 1910-1960. Sanborn Insurance Maps, Northampton, 1915. U. S. Federal censuses 1890-1930. Walker, George H. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address State Archives Facility 220 Morrissey Boulevard Northampton 45 Kensington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02125 Area(s) Form No. NTH.2456 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 from 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.