Crescent Street 5.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-13 Easthampton NTH.597 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 5 Crescent Street Historic Name: J.
Everett and Mary Seelye Brady House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1892 Source: Registry of Deeds and Directory Style/Form:
Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.199 acre Setting: This is a south-facing house on a corner lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [5 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.597 _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 Brady House is a two-and-a-half story, Colonial Revival style house with a gambrel roof. The
principal entry to the house is in the gable end. The lower story of the house is clapboard-sided, the upper stories are wood shingle sided and between the first and second story is
a wide overhang or jetty. Front-gabled dormers appear on the lower slopes of the roof and on the west a a large oriel window under a shed roof spans the two stories. It has leaded glass
in the main window opening. An arcaded porch serves to shelter the main entry to the house. Two bays deep and one bay deep, the porch arches rise from springing blocks above a solid
railing. The house has a center chimney. 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 in 1892 for Rufus Underwood at a cost of $400. Rev. Underwood sold the house
and lot the next year to Mary Seelye Brady and J. Everett Brady. Mr. Brady was a professor of Latin and Literature at Smith College.Crescent Street had been opened in 1886 as part of
the subdivision of the old Round Hill Hotel property. The street gracefully curved around the middle slopes of the hill providing fine views and stimulating breezes.” BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or
REFERENCES Beers, 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. 464-P.21
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [5 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.597 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 Brady 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 Brady House is a fine example of the Colonial Revival style and is exceptionally
well-preserved. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.