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Forbes Avenue 25.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-127 Easthampton NTH.500 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 25 Forbes Avenue Historic Name: Thomas Roe House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles, clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good/fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.188 acres Setting: House occupies a corner lot on a quiet residential stree t. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [25 FORBES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.500 _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 Roe House is Colonial Revival in style, as style that generally reduced the number of gables and bays, spindles, balusters and ornamental trim in an effort to return to the simplicity of colonial architecture. Like the majority of Colonial Revival style houses in Northampton, it is two-and-a-half stories in height under a hipped roof. The roof eaves flare and have a wide extension -an influence of the Prairie Style. While the Queen Anne style mixed shingles and clapboards on the exterior, the Colonial Revival characteristically keeps the two materials strictly to the two stories separated by a narrow jetty, as is done here. A wraparound porch takes advantage of the corner lot, and its hipped roof is supported by fluted piers supported on high paneled pedestals. Entry to the porch is marked by a large pediment on top of which is a solid shingled railing that provides a second story porch. 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 in 1887 by J.C. Hammond and J.A. Sullivan, two of Northampton’s most prominent developers of the late 19th and early 20 centuries. Development was slow and by 1895, only four houses had been constructed, with the other eleven lots being developed early in the 20th century. During the 1920’s, the street was extended behind Vernon Street School and ended at Washington Place. The first known owner of this house was Thomas Roe. Mr. Roe was listed here in the 1915 directory, and was described as the superintendent of the McCallum Hosiery Co. on West Street in Northampton.” 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: Bk. 427-P. 541 INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [25 FORBES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.500 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.