Chestnut Avenue 17.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: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 11A-28 Easthampton NTH.35 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Leeds Address: 17 Chestnut Avenue Historic Name:
L. Field House Uses: Present: two-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1878-1884 Source: Registry of Deeds and atlas Style/Form: eclectic Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes |
| Date Acreage: 0.629 acres Setting: Buildings occupy a large lot that is shaded with evergreen and maple trees.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [17 Chestnut Avenue] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.35 ___ 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 Field House is a substantial and stylistically sophisticated house that reflects the economic
status of Lemuel Field at the Nonotuck Silk Company. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a side-gable roof with a transverse gable on the west façade, a wing on the north, and a
three-story tower under a mansard roof in the southeast angle between the main block and the transverse gable. There is a porch across three of the four bays of the north wing. It is
supported on Italianate chamfered posts. At the porch eaves are Gothic Revival style braces. Knee-high windows are found on the wing at the second story level. On the transverse gable
at the first floor level is a three-sided bay window. Above this bay window at the second floor level are Italianate style, long and narrow paired windows. Sash in the house is 2/2 and
1/1. 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 the 1980 Form B, “Lemuel and Augusta Field purchased a lot from the Nonotuck Silk Company in 1878. This was lot 5 on the company’s subdivision plan
for the area north of Front Street on the hill overlooking Leeds village. L. B. Field was employed by the Nonotuck Silk Company, listed as a foreman in the 1885-1886 Directory, and as
superintendent of the the Wood Department in the 1895-96 Directory.” 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. Registry of Deeds, Book 758, page 416; book 341, page 565. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire
County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.