Columbus Avenue 72.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-137 Easthampton NTH.1044 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 72 Columbus Avenue
Historic Name: Will N. Doane House Uses: Present: Single family Original: Single family Date of Construction: c. 1895 Source: Atlas and Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard & shingle Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: One bay garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.4 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] [72 COLUMBUS AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1044 __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 Anne style home with a slate pedimented roof. The house has
a shed roof porch with gabled front entrance that wraps around to the eastern elevation of the home. The porch has turned posts, balustrade with fine balusters, and ornately cut brackets.
The porch gable and the front gable field are ornamented by fish scale shingling. The tall and narrow windows in the gable field are a 1970 era alteration to the home. Overall, the home
has one over one sash windows with flat stock surrounds and drip edge lintels and sills. On the northwest elevation, there is a two-story oriel rising from the second story to the attic
story level and further back there is a one story wing with side gable roof. On the eastern elevation, there is a shallow two-story wing capped by a gable roof that is two bays wide.
The property also includes a one bay garage with a slate 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: “Columbus Avenue was laid out in 1892 across part of the Clapp family’s
South Street homestead. In 1895, Will Doane purchased lot no. 24 on the subdivision plan. Mr. Doane was manager of the Merrick Lumber Company in town, and is first listed at this address
in the 1895-1896 directory.” 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: Bk. 449-P. 410, 476-118