Columbus Avenue 19.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-143 Easthampton NTH.1047 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 19 Columbus Avenue
Historic Name: R.F Putnam House Uses: Present: Three unit residence Original: Single unit residence Date of Construction: 1895 Source: Hampshire Gazette (5/22/1896) Style/Form: Shingle
Architect/Builder: Rosewell F. Putnam Exterior Material: Foundation: Fieldstone Wall/Trim: Stucco & wood shingle Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with
dates): Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.27 acres Setting: House among other 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] [19 COLUMBUS AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1047 __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 an architect-designed two-and-a-half story Shingle style home with cross gambrel roof that
overhangs slightly to form a jetty. Dark brown shingles cover the faces of the gables but are confined to those areas rather than covering all surfaces as typical in the Shingle style.
There are three brackets symmetrically placed along the gable-to-wall juncture. Beneath the gables is a stuccoed ground story. A broad arch defines the recessed front entry. The house
features several window types, including 3/1 sash, 4/2 sash and windows with multi-paned decorative sashes. Windows in the gables have drip mold edges. There is a low-relief bay window
on the ground floor of the southern elevation and a steeply pitched gabled dormer on the upper story. The frontward facing gable features a three part window above which is a decorative
Palladian style arch, which is a common decorative feature found on Shingle style houses. There are two brick chimneys, one on each gable. An additional decorative feature of the home
is its fieldstone foundation. 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 1976, “Roswell F. Putnam and L.D. Bayley opened an office in Northampton around 1892 and captured a large number
of architectural commissions in the 1890s. Bayley was a Vermonter who began practicing in the 1870s; Putnam hailed from Amherst and was reported to have studied in the “best offices
in Boston,” although his obituary mentions a period of training with Architect Fuller in Worcester. By 1898 the firm had been dissolved, Bayley going to Hartford and Putnam remaining
in Northampton until his death in 1911. In 1895, Putnam purchased two lots of land, #3 and #5 in a subdivision of off South Street to be known as Columbus Avenue. The Gazette of May
22, 1896, noted that “Architect Putnam is moving to his new house, Columbus Ave, today.” “Among Putnam’s other designs are the Hammond House on Elm Street, the Masonic Block, the Porter
House on Butler Place and the Reid House on Phillips Place. His son Karl Putnam also had an architectural business in Northampton.” Edward and Anna Zuchowski have owned this home since
at least 1976. 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.