Audubon Road 19.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: PVPC Date (month /year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number
USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 10B-8-001 Easthampton NTH.10 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Leeds Address: 19 Audubon Road Historic Name: Luke Day House Uses: Present:
two-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1794 Source: Antiquities, Historical and Graduates, 1882. Style/Form: no style Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: New England style horse barn Major Alterations (with dates): House converted to
workers’ tenement, ca. 1880. Sided and windows replaced, ca. 2000 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 9.8 acres (Northampton Assessors) Setting: This house faces south
and is set back from the road on a large lot that is wooded on two sides.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [19 Audubon Road] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.10 ___ 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 house has been altered to the extent that its late 18th century origins are not readily identifiable
from the exterior. It is a two-and-a-half story, vinyl-sided house under a front-gabled roof. There is a two-story porch across the south façade with turned posts and brackets at the
eaves. At the second floor the porch has a square baluster railing. The Queen Anne style porch probably dates from conversion of the house to a tenement in the 1880s though its elements
may have changed over time. The main block of the house is three bays wide and an equivalent of four bays deep and there are two one-story, clapboard-sided ells on the north and a side
porch on the east. The principal entry to the house on the south façade has rather broad pilasters supporting an entablature that is not visible behind the porch. A second entry at the
second floor has no surround. A third entry is located on the west elevation at the first floor level under a shed roof on turned posts. Vinyl covers any surround. Replacement vinyl
windows are 12/12. 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. According to a 1980 Form B for this property, “During the last decade of the 18th century three families established themselves along the
road to Williamsburg west of the Mill River. These were James Smith (1790), Calvin Clark (1792) and Luke Day (1794). The settlement was called Rail Hill, and in later years, after the
harnessing of the Mill River near the junction of Roberts Meadow Brook, and the growth of an industrial village there, became part of Leeds. Thus, this is the third homestead to be established
in this area. The homestead continued in the Day family with Jonathan Day, who lived there all his life. After his death, ca. 1880, the house passed to the hands of the Nonotuck Silk
Company, which probably used it for tenements.” 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. Clark, S. Antiquities, Historical and
Graduates of Northampton, 1882, Pp.162-165.