Crescent Street 253.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 31A-46 Easthampton NTH.471 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 253 Crescent Street Historic Name:
Herbert Graves House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Craftsman Bungalow Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: fieldstone Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x
| yes | | Date Acreage: 0.16 acre Setting: This house faces east on a quiet, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [253 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.471 _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 Herbert Graves House is a fine example of a Craftsman bungalow. It is a shingled, one-and-a-half
story house with fieldstone foundations and fieldstone end wall chimneys that project through the eaves in the gable ends of the side-gable roof. The roof extends across the east façade
of the house to rest on fieldstone corner piers and it has Craftsman exposed rafter ends at its eaves. There is a low-pitched shed roof dormer centered on the roof. The house is three
bays wide with a center entry and flanking windows with double-hung sash. The house is the equivalent of four bays deep and at each elevation on north and south is a one-story, angled
bay window with a shingle-covered convex roof. Windows in the bay have diamond pane transoms that repeat the diamond pane lights of the dormer windows. There is a projecting enclosed
secondary entry on north and south elevations. 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 Herbert Graves, an insurance agent and treasurer of the Northampton Co-operative
Bank in 1912 at a cost of $4500. Crescent Street had been laid out in 1886, but the section south of Bancroft Road wasn’t developed until the early 20th century.” 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] [253 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.471 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 Graves 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 Graves House is a good example of the Craftsman Bungalow
style. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.