Garfield Avenue 39.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 17C-76 Easthampton NTH.87 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 39 Garfield Avenue Historic Name: Uses:
Present: vacant Original: single-family house Date of Construction: c. 1915 Source: Atlas & Directory Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): In process of restoration, 2010 Condition: good Moved: no | x |
yes | | Date Acreage: 4.021 acres Setting: This house sits on a rise in the landscape and faces ea
st. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [39 GARFIELD STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.87 ___ 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 is a unique Colonial Revival style house in Northampton. It is one-and-a-half stories in height
under a hipped roof with shallow cross-gables on south, east and north. It has a Colonial Revival style porch on fluted posts that wraps around from east and across the south. The porch
has no railings, so becomes an open verandah. The house is three bays wide and four bays deep and its windows have architrave surrounds topped with projecting cornices on consoles in
a classical design used in such monumental buildings as John M. Greene Hall on Elm Street. There are two secondary entries to the house on the south elevation. Sash in the house is a
combination of 6/1 and 2/2. 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: “Garfield Avenue first shows up on the 1915 atlas and this cottage was probably constructed soon afterwards.” 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.