Columbus Avenue 46.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-129 Easthampton NTH.1040 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 46 Columbus Avenue
Historic Name: Charles H. Sawyer 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 & metal Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Small shed in rear Major Alterations (with dates):
Porch (1980-2010) Metal roof (1980-2010) Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.23 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] [46 COLUMBUS AVE. ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1040 __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-story Queen Anne style home with complex plan of hip on multiple gables. Decoratively
cut shingles are used in the gable fields and as a band separating the first and second floors. The defining feature of this home is the three-story tower with pyramidal roof located
at the angle between the frontward facing gable and westward facing gable. The tower serves as the the location for the front entry which is underneath a small metal shed roof porch.
According to the 1980 Form B, the front entry porch originally displayed distinct Queen Anne turned posts and maybe even a spindle frieze. The porch has since been altered with rounded
Tuscan style columns, closed frieze, and square balusters. Windows on the home have all been replaced but still have their original simple surrounds. A shallow rectangular bay with metal
roof adorns the front façade mimicking an oriel. The 2/2 sash window in the gable field appears to be original. On the eastern elevation of the house is a two-and-half story bay with
gabled roof. Also on this elevation is a screened porch. Similar to other homes in this area of Northampton, the house rests on a brick 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
1980, “This house was built for Charles Sawyer, the assistant postmaster, in 1892. It is on lot 14 of the Columbus Avenue subdivision. The plan was filed in 1892, thus this was one of
the first houses built on the street.” 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, 450-44