Audubon Road 48.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-10 Easthampton NTH.11 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 48 Audubon Road Historic Name: Abram and Julia Tacy House Uses: Present:
single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1873-1884 Source: atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards and shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage:
0.601 acres (Northampton Assessors) Setting: This is a north-facing house set on a rise in the landscape. It is on a still-rural road in northwest Northampton.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [48 AUDUBON ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.11 ___ 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 fine example of a one-and-a-half story Queen Anne style house that is modest in size
but conveys many of the features of the developed Queen Anne style. It is one of several examples of the style on Audubon Road, and all are well-maintained. It has a front-gable roof
and is three bays wide and three deep. The clapboard sided house has shingles in its gable field and a stringcourse between first and second stories to add visual interest to the exterior.
Barge boards decorate the eaves of the front gable and include a King Post truss at the point of the ridge. A full width porch crosses the north façade of the house. It is supported
on chamfered posts on plinths and has scroll-cut brackets at the shed roof eaves. It railing is jigsaw cut as well and there is a decorative apron beneath the porch that adds to the
picturesque effect of the porch. A three-sided bay window on the east elevation of the house is followed by a shed roof side porch that has been glass-enclosed. The house has a single
center chimney. Window sash is 1/1 replacement. 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. In 1895 this was the A. Tacy House. Abram and Julia Tacy and their children Frederick, Alonzo, Mary, Wilfred
and Lea by the census of 1900 were living on South Main Street in Leeds but were in this house in 1895. In 1893 Abram was a fireman for the Northampton Silk Company and in 1900 he listed
himself as a 54 year old electric power manager, Julia was at home, Frederick was a saw mill laborer, Alonzo a milk peddler, Mary and Wilfred were in School and Lea at home. They are
representative of many of the families in Leeds who worked in the local industries, changed employment fairly often and lived in modest homes. 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.