Crescent Street 43.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 31B-7 Easthampton NTH.595 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 43 Crescent Street Historic Name: John
B. and Margaret C. Riley House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1887-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen
Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: board and batten, clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.268 acre Setting: This is a west-facing house whose land slopes precipitously down towards the east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [43 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.595 __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 Queen Anne style house that is two-and-a-half stories in height under a hipped roof.
It is subtle in its Queen Anne ornament depending on variations in its surface for its picturesque quality rather than on a complex composition of gables, bays, oriels and more. It has
a cross-gable on the west façade and in the angle between the cross-gable bay and the main block of the house is a stacked porch. At first floor level it is full-width and rests on turned
posts with brackets at its eaves. At the second floor, the porch is one bay wide and one bay deep and its openings are arched and sided in scalloped shingles. A band of scalloped shingles
also separates the clapboard-sided first and second stories. A third siding appears in the gable field – board and batten siding. An adjacent hipped roof dormer is also board and batten.
Windows in the house are paired and single with 1/1 and 2/2 sash. 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: “In 1887, John and Margaret Riley bought part of lot no. 3 of the Round Hill
Estate subdivision for $600. Mr. Riley was a printer with Metcalf and Co. and made this his homestead. Crescent Street had been opened in 1886 and curved gently along the middle slopes
of of Round Hill. The street provided sweeping views of the Connecticut River Valley and surrounding hills, and quickly became one of the most ‘aristocratic’ streets in the city.” 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. 409-P. 18, 406-188, 404-149, 314-430
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [43 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.595 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 Riley 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 it 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 Riley House is a fine example of the Queen Anne style and is exceptionally well-preserved.
This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.