Belmont Avenue 21.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): April, 2010 Assessor’s Number
USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31D-41 Easthampton NTH.754 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 21 Belmont Avenue Historic Name: Belmont Apartments Uses: Present:
7 unit apartment building Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases of 1895 and 1915 Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Multiple-car garage Major Alterations (with dates): Two story porch and east wing added; wooden decks,
vinyl siding and vinyl replacement windows, ca. 2000. Condition: good/fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.236 acres Setting: This building is set in a neighborhood of homes
converted to College use and college buildings.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [21 BELMONT AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.754 ___ 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. The Belmont Apartments building began as a large scale, Colonial Revival style single-family house
and was then converted to an apartment block by the addition of a two-and-a-half story wing with decks, and a two-story porch. It has been vinyl-sided and vinyl replacement windows installed
so few of its Colonial Revival features remain evident. The main block of the building is a two-and-a-half story house with a slate-covered hipped roof. It is three bays wide and is
crossed by a full-width porch on its north façade. There are front-gable dormers centered on each elevation and the façade. The porch has fluted posts supporting its hipped roof and
the stairs are marked by a pediment on the roof whose tympanum contains a floral relief. Centered on the north façade at the second story level is a Palladian window composition now
closely framed in vinyl. The two-and-a-half story wing was added with a hipped roof to match that of the main block. It is two bays wide and two bays deep and has a wooden deck/fire
escape structure across its east elevation. This building is among the less well-preserved of the Colonial Revival houses converted to college use in the neighborhood. 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, “Belmont Avenue was laid out in the late 1890s through the property of Mrs. R. H. Crane on Green Street, and the property of Joseph Lord on West Street. Most of
the houses on that street were constructed early in the 20th century and feature Colonial Revival style. “ BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts,
New York, 1873. 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. Northampton Directories of 1905, 1915, 1922.