Eastern Avenue 33-37.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-237 Easthampton NTH.2160 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 33-37 Eastern Avenue Historic Name:
Mr. Knight Apartments Uses: Present: Apartments Original: Apartments Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation:
parged brick Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows replaced, porch supports
replaced, ca. 1960-2000. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.103 acres Setting: This apartment block occupies a corner lot in a section of the City that is largely
residential.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [33-37 EASTERN AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2160 ___ 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 rowhouse has lost a good deal of its Queen Anne character due to the siding and other alterations,
but it retains its Queen Anne form. It 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 side-gable roof with a jerkin head on the west end. The building like its neighbor at 1-23 Eastern Avenue is asymmetrical with a
polygonal tower at its northeast corner and with its façade that alternates two-story shed roof porches with transverse gable bays. The second stories of the porches have half-length
Doric columns that rest on solid railings and the first floor has replacement wrought iron posts. There are hipped roof dormers above the porches. Windows in the transverse gable bays
are paired and sash in the building is a mixture of 2/1 and replacement 1/1 vinyl sash. Smaller and less ornate than its neighbor, this building nevertheless conveys much of the Queen
Anne style. 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 the Form B of 1980, “This Queen Anne styled rowhouse is one of two on the southern side of Eastern Avenue.” It is designated on the atlas of 1895 as
belonging to a Mr. Knight. 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.