Forbes Avenue 12.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 31A-148 Easthampton NTH.505 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 12 Forbes Avenue Historic Name: Uses:
Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation:
brownstone blocks Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Attached garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | | yes |
| Date Acreage: 0.184 acres Setting: This house is in a neighborhood of predominantly late 19th-19th-early 20th c. homes.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [12 FORBES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.505 _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 Queen Anne house is a good example of the high level of design and construction in Northampton
as its side streets developed in the late 19th century. It is a two-and-a-half story house with a front-gable roof, and a two-and-a-half story wing with a jerkin head roof. A rear ell
creates a T-shaped plan. There is a single interior chimney on the roof. The house’s exterior material create visual interest, a principle of the Queen Anne style. Rusticated brownstone
foundations are high and above them the house is mainly sided in clapboard with scalloped shingles in the front-gable. A porch in the angle of the two sections on the west rests on half-length
columns above rusticated or rough-faced brownstone piers. The front-gabled section of the house is square at the second story and angled at the first story and scroll-cut braces mark
the transition between the two volumes. Between the two windows at its second story is a decorative panel. The entry surround is trabeated. 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:
“Forbes Avenue was opened off of Elm Street in 1887 by J.C. Hammond and J.A. Sullivan, two developers who played a prominent role in opening up a number of residential tracts in Northampton
around the turn-of-the-century. The western end of the street, from the rear of Vernon Street School to Washington Place, was opened in the mid 1920’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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [12 FORBES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.505 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. This property would contribute to a potential historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side
streets laid out on the south side of Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district
is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of the development
of Northampton from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for attendance at Smith
College, and the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a shift from gentlemen’s
estates to accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers. According to criterion
C this district would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles are
all well-represented within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time.