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Forbes Avenue 35.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 Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31A-129 Easthampton NTH.501 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 35 Forbes Avenue Historic Name: Edward T. Barrett House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1905 Source: Atlas & Directory Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.262 acres Setting: This house is on a quiet residential street on which are similar houses in the Colonial Revival and Queen Anne styles. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [35 FORBES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.501 _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 Barrett House is a Colonial Revival style building with a truncated hipped roof that is slate-covered. It has a centered cross-gable whose eaves make full returns to form a pediment in which is a triple window composition with diamond pane upper sash – a Colonial Revival feature. The cross-gable projects slightly from the plane of the façade and has pilasters at its corners, but but it does not extend to the first story. Rather it rests on the shed roof of a full width porch supported by square posts. A large pediment marks the entry to the porch. The house has corner pilasters beneath a wide frieze and eaves overhang. The roof flares at the eaves. As is typical of the Colonial Revival style, the house is only three bays wide but proportions have grown and first floor windows are large, fixed single panes that allow more light to the interior. Like its neighbor at 25 Forbes Avenue, this house aimed to simplify what had come to be considered the “fussiness” of the previous 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 Form B of1980: “Forbes Avenue was opened in 1887 by local developers J.C. Hammond and J.A. Sullivan. Development was slow, and by 1895, there were only four houses constructed. This house was built early in the 20th century for Edward Barrett, a partner with James O’Brien in a general insurance and real estate agency. Barrett and O’Brien played an influential part in the turn-of-the-century development of 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 ] [35 FORBES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.501 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.