Columbus Avenue 16-18.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38B-123 Easthampton NTH.1036 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 16-18 Columbus Avenue
Historic Name: Second Congregational Society Parsonage Uses: Present: Two family Original: One family Date of Construction: 1892-93 Source: Registry of Deeds & 1895 Atlas Style/Form:
Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Two bay pyramidal garage Major Alterations (with
dates): Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.19 acres Setting: House among other large large single family or former single family homes in a well-established residential
neighborhood of turn-of-the century homes, which contains mature trees throughout.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [16-18 COLUMBUS AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1036 _X__ 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 two-and-a-half story late Queen Anne style home with a side gabled roof. The house has
a one-story hipped roof porch that extends across full width of the three bay front façade. The Queen Ann style porch includes turned posts, fan brackets, decorative balustrade and a
lattice apron. At the center of the slate roof is a gabled dormer with sawtooth shingles in the gable. On the northern elevation of the home, the roof extends to a one story rear ell
at the northwestern corner but not at the northeastern corner of the home. Also on this elevation is a small side entry porch with a shed roof. Most of the windows on the house are six
over two sash, but there are a few six over six sash windows as well. On the eastern elevation of the home is two story bay with chamfered corners, decorative braces, and paneling on
the first story. Also on this elevation, to the rear of the home, is a two-bay attached shed with front gable roof. The house has retained its two brick chimneys that are located just
over the ridge line on the rear slope of the roof. The house is clapboard sided and rests on a brick foundation. The property also includes a two bay garage with pyramidal roof. 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, “Columbus Avenue, with lots on both sides, was filed on a subdivision plan in 1892. The Street was opened through the South Street homestead of Elizabeth
Clapp. The Clapp family is one of the oldest in the South Street area. Preserved Clapp was granted land on the north side of the street, where today School Street and Fort Terrace are.
This land, obtained in 1661 when Preserved settled in Northampton, was to have served as a homestead, however, the ‘frontier’ nature of Northampton prevented this. No settlement occurred
west of the Mill River until 1696. Captain Roger Clapp, Preserved’s son, settled on South Street in 1713. He occupied land on the South Side of the Street. Most of these lands remained
in the Clapp family through the 19th century. During 1892, the Second Congregational Society obtained lot number 4 of this subdivision and built this house as a parsonage. Reverend Richard
A. Griffin is listed as residing here in the 1892-93 directory.” Howard Andersen has owned this home since at least 1980. 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.