Crescent Street 83.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-242 Easthampton NTH.341 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 83 Crescent Street Historic Name:
H.P. Dewey House Uses: Present: Five-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1893 Source: Hampshire Gazette, 7/3/1893 Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
F.S. Neuman of Springfield Exterior Material: Foundation: brick, parged brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with
dates): Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.413 acre Setting: This is is a west-facing house that is set on a ridge that slopes down to the east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [83 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.341 __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 two-and-a-half story Colonial Revival house with a hipped roof on which is a centered,
pedimented pavilion on colossal paired, fluted pilasters with composite capitals. There is a two-and-a-half story hipped wing on the north and an open porch of one-story on the south,
and a two-story ell on the rear. The main block of the house is three bays wide, a deceptive number, number, as the proportions of the house are large. The main entry is in the pavilion
beneath a portico on Doric columns. It is topped by a balustrade. The entry itself has a glass and panel door beneath a transom light and flanked by leaded glass sidelights. At the second
story level is a Palladian window composition. In the angle between the main block and the wing is a secondary porch on Doric columns. Sash in the house is 1/1. 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 1976: “Springfield architect Frank S. Neuman provided the plans for this $12,000 house on Crescent Street. F. S. Neuman arrived in Springfield 1883-1884 and was first
listed in the city directory in 1883 as a carpenter. Churches, residences, and theatres in Springfield were among his designs. Neuman left Springfield for a profitable career in Philadelphia
in the mid-nineties.” 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] [83 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.341 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 Dewey 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 Dewey House is a fine, architect designed example of the Colonial Revival style
and is well-preserved. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.