Crescent Street 176.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: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24D-286 Easthampton NTH.354 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 176 Crescent Street Historic Name:
James Fitzgibbons House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles, clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes
| | Date Acreage: 0.145 acre Setting: This house faces northwest on a curving, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [176 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.354 _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. The James Fitzgibbons House is a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne style house that has a side-gable
roof with a front cross-gable bay creating an L-shaped plan. The gable eaves in both sections of the house project over their attic windows. In the angle of the two sections of the house
is a three story square tower beneath a pyramidal hipped roof. This house plan is not uncommon uncommon in Northampton, a second version is at 204 Crescent Street. Adding to the complexity
of this house’s interior volume is a two-story oriel window on the north elevation and a three-story bay on the south elevation. The house has a full-width porch across its west façade.
It is supported by turned posts with solid brackets. The house is sided with clapboards on the first story and shingles of different profiles on the second story and attic level, and
the house has been painted in an historically appropriate color scheme that highlights its varying exterior materials in a picturesque manner. 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 is one of two almost identical late Victorian houses on Crescent Street built c. 1890. Crescent Street had been laid out in 1886 along the middle slopes of Round Hill through
the estate of Round Hill Hotel. The 1895 atlas shows this house and lists James Fitzgibbons, an employee of the C.A. Maynard Company, manufacturers of hoes and shovels, as the owner.”
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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [176 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.354 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Fitzgibbons House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor,
Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few
gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred
years to the present. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial
Revival and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Fitzgibbons House is a fine example of the Queen
Anne style. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.