Columbus Avenue 40.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-127 Easthampton NTH.1039 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 40 Columbus Avenue
Historic Name: Charles Lewis House Uses: Present: Single family Original: Single family Date of Construction: 1892 Source: Registry of Deeds and Street Directory Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Two bay, front gable garage Major Alterations (with dates):
Screened side porch (20th century) 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] [40 Columbus Ave] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1039 __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 Queen Ann style home under a cross gabled roof for a T-shaped house
plan. Most of the house’s stylistic features can be found in the frontward facing gable. The front façade is divided into sections through the use of corner boards and string courses
as well as shingle siding and clapboard siding, which is a stylistic holdover from the preceding Stick style. In the gable field is a multi glazed light framed by a simple surround.
Aligned with this gable field window on the first floor is a projecting window that mimics an oriel, which features a leaded multi-light transom of matching color and style. A unique
element of the home is the extension of the western slope of the front gable roof down to the first floor to cover a front entry porch that includes turned posts, a spindle frieze and
matching balustrade. Decoratively cut shingles have been used in the gable field and over the entry porch. A small circular window is located above the front entry porch further adding
character to the front façade. All other windows at this house are replacements and are framed by simple surrounds. At the angle created by the main block of the home and the eastern
cross gable is a screened porch with low-pitched hipped roof. The screened side porch is a 20th century alteration. This porch has turned posts resting on high square bases, turned balusters,
and a wide frieze. This house has a slate roof and rests on a brick foundation. There are two brick chimneys—the first is located along the ridge line of the front gable and the second
is an exterior wall chimney located at the end of the eastern gable. The property also includes a one bay garage with front gable 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,
“This house was built in 1892 for Charles Lewis, a mail clerk at the post-office. This is lot number 12 on a subdivision plan for Columbus Avenue, and is one of the first lots to be
developed after the subdivision was filed, also in 1892.” 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. Registry of Deeds: Book
449-P.410, 450-175. Northampton Street Directory: 1892-93.