Audubon Road 73.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-82 Easthampton NTH.21 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 73 Audubon Road Historic Name: Andrew Sydell House Uses: Present:
single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: New England style carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced ca. 2000/Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 3.97 acres (Northampton Assessors) Setting: This house is on the east side of a stream that drains into the Roberts Meadow Reservoir on a lot that
slopes down to the east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [73 AUDUBON ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.21 ___ 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 one of the five to six houses that went up on Audubon Road at the end of the 19th century
in the Queen Anne style. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof. It is three bays wide and four bays deep with a two-story ell and a side porch on the east elevation.
It has a hipped roof porch on its south façade on posts with scroll-cut brackets at the eaves. The main entry door is a glass and panel door that is probably original. There is a three-sided
bay window on the east elevation and an oculus window in the gable of the south façade. Windows of the house have been replaced by 1/1 vinyl. This is a modest house that is representative
of the housing that families shared while working in the nearby mills. 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 Form B completed in 1980 for this property, “The first known owner of the
house is Andrew Sydell, who in 1895 was employed as a watchman for the Northampton Emory Wheel Company in Leeds. He may have lived here as early as 1885 when he was employed by the Nonotuck
Silk Company, but no street address is given in the directory.” Audubon Road was known as West Street in 1893 and Andrew Sydell is listed in the directory of that year on living on West
Street and already a watchman at NEW Company. 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. Directories of 1895-96, 1885-86.