Crescent Street 207.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 24C-171 Easthampton NTH.315 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 207 Crescent Street Historic Name:
William Crowley House Uses: Present: Single-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: clapboard, shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): One-story wing added, ca. 1970. Condition:
good Moved: no | | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.331 acre Setting: This house faces southeast at a a curve in the roadway.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [207 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.315 __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 one of three originally identical houses clustered near each other on Crescent Street.
The others are numbers 199 and 207. The houses are two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gabled roof and they have cross-gables on their north elevations for L-shaped plans.
They are only two bays wide and the equivalent of three bays deep. They have side-hall entries adjacent to a single window on the east façade and have full-width porches on turned posts
with brackets at their eaves. This house has a one-story porch wing on the north that has been enclosed. Sash is mostly 2/2. The house is clapboard on the first and second stories and
has a small wood shingle section in a wave pattern in the gable field. The three houses are modestly Queen Anne and were probably built on speculation by a local builder. 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: “Crescent Street was opened in 1886 along the middle slopes of Round Hill. The street almost completely encircles the hill and provides fine vistas
of the north and east. This is one of three virtually identical houses built on the western side of the hill adjacent to each other. They all appear on the 1895 atlas, with this one
being owned by William Latham. Mr. Latham never lived here, and soon sold the house to William Crowley, a section foreman for the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, who established
his residence here.” 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] [207 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.315 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 Crowley 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 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 Crowley House is a good example of the Queen Anne style
built on specifications. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.