Columbus Avenue 28.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-125 Easthampton NTH.1037 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 28 Columbus Avenue
Historic Name: M. Bailey House Uses: Present: Single family Original: Single family Date of Construction: circa 1908 Source: 1895 & 1915 Atlas and 1908 Street Directory Style/Form: Colonial
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Wood shingle & brick Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Large, two-story clapboard and shingle
carriage house Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.24 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 ] [28 COLUMBUS AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1037 __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 Colonial Revival style home with modified truncated hipped roof.
The first floor of the home is clad in brick while the second floor has wood shingle cladding. At the southwestern elevation of the home, is a two story bay and directly next to this
bay on the western elevation is a through-cornice brick chimney. Both eastern and western elevations elevations of the home have hipped roof dormers. The cornice line of the roof and
dormers is emphasized with decorative scroll brackets, which is also replicated on the partial width front porch that wraps around to the eastern elevation. The home’s front entry is
marked by a wide pediment that is supported by brick piers. The remainder of the porch has Tuscan columns and a solid brick balustrade. Directly above the pedimented front entry, on
the second story, is a shallow bay window and, above the bay window, is a hipped roof dormer with flared eaves. All three of these features are in line with each other and provide a
sense of balance to the front façade. The original windows of the home are present, but somewhat hidden beneath metal storm windows. Window sash is 6/1 and 4/1 and first story windows
have cast stone lintels and sills. The rear of the home has an enclosed sun room on the second story. This property also includes a massive two-story carriage house that is clapboard
and shingle sided. The carriage house is topped by a hipped roof that has a lower front gable and features a large copula. 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
was opened in 1892 across part of the Clapp family homestead. Planned as a residential street, development was substantially complete by 1915. This is the largest and most imposing house
on the street and was constructed in the early years of the 20th century. Myron Bailey, a carpenter, builder, and lumber dealer, is first listed as living here in 1908, and probably
built the house himself.” Caroline Brandt owned the home in 2010. She also owned the home when this home was first recorded in 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, 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. 1915 Atlas Northampton Directories: 1905, 1908, 1915, 1922