Eastern Avenue 3-23.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 32C-239 Easthampton NTH.961 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 1-23 Eastern Avenue Historic Name:
Dr. Sheady’s Apartments Uses: Present: Apartments Original: Apartments Date of Construction: 1890-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds, 434.35, 1895 Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl and wood shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows
replaced, 1990-2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.363 acres Setting: Set on a long corner block, this apartment building is one of two such blocks in a neighborhood
of primarily late 19th century homes.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [3-23 EASTERN AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.961 __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 Dr. Sheady Apartment block is one of at least six such blocks in Northampton that follow similar
Queen Anne designs, though their materials vary from frame to brick. The building is two-and-a-half stories in height under a gable-on-hip roof. There are tall chimneys on the roof,
one per pair apartments. The north façade of the block is asymmetrical with a tower at the northwest corner and a transverse gable bay on the northeast. Between these two segments the
apartment block is divided by three pairs of transverse gable bays separated by two-story porches on whose first floors are the entries to the apartments. The porches have square posts
and spindle friezes on the first floor, but second floors have turned posts and brackets at the eaves. Each transverse gable bay is square in plan at the second floor and is chamfered
on the first floor; their junction is ornamented with scrolled brackets. The front-gabled bays have barge boards at their eaves. Above each shed-roofed porch is a front-gabled dormer.
The building has had its first floor sided in vinyl and its second floor in scalloped shingles. There is a shallow jetty between stories. These apartment blocks add considerably to the
architectural richness of the City. 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 1975: “The tenement was built between 1890 and 1895. Charles H. Jones and B. E. Cook transferred the lot
of land to Bryan D. Sheedy in June 1890 for $1600; the apartment block clearly appears on the 1895 Northampton-Easthampton Atlas, as ‘Dr. Sheady’s.’” 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, Hampshire County, 1245.53, 1158.331, 841.377, 776.145, 649.325, 434.35
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [3-23 EASTERN AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.961 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 Dr. Sheedy Block is eligible for the National Register as a building in which there is a history of residents who represent
the growing middle class of Northampton. The history of the building’s residents has not been developed on the Form B of 1975, however, it should be researched and developed to illustrate
the broad patterns of social and political life that took place in the buildings. Architecturally, the building is eligible for the National Register as the best-preserved of the approximately
six such buildings constructed in Northampton as row houses to accommodate the growing population. Its Queen Anne style is superior and its features have been well-maintained.