Glenwood Avenue 1-7.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 25A-136 Easthampton NTH.375 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 1-7 Glenwood Avenue Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Four-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Panel Brick Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation:
brick Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.257 acres
Setting: This building faces north on a residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [1-7 GLENWOOD AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.375 ___ 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 two-story, four-family, brick building with a flat roof, on which are two tall chimneys.
It is probable, but not documented that the roof has been altered. The building is six bays wide on the first floor, the four center bays being door openings topped by square transoms,
flanked by two outer bay windows that are segmentally arched. They have replacement 1/1 sash. The building is divided into stories by ornamental brickwork that characterizes the Panel
Brick style, which is the masonry equivalent of the Queen Anne. There are corbelled bricks at the cornice and below the cornice above the second story windows are recessed panels. Between
first and second stories is a corbelled stringcourse and a broad beltcourse surrounds the building at the level of the watertable. There is a low hipped roof that precedes the four doors
on the south façade. It has square posts with scroll-cut brackets at the eaves. The building is six bays deep and at the north corners on each lateral elevation are two-story porches
on posts with scroll-cut eaves brackets. Both east and west elevations also have three-sided bay windows. 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: “Northampton is primarily a city of
one-family and two-family frame houses. This two-story, four-family apartment block was built around the turn of the century. Charles Crouch, a local contractor and builder, had filed
a subdivision plan in 1898. This plan was for lots on both sides of a new street, called Glenwood Avenue, off of Bridge Street. Glenwood Avenue was opened through the old Bridge Street
homestead of Mrs. Charles Lyman.” 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. 512-P. 150 &151