Grant Avenue 30.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 25C-108 Easthampton NTH.390 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 30 Grant Avenue Historic Name: Edson
P. Clark tenant house Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: c. 1870 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Studio apartment added, ca. 1990 Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.177 acres Setting: This house faces north on a dead end street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [30 GRANT AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.390 ___ 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 house has the modest form and details of a tenant house, though its size is ample. It is a
two-and-a-half story, front-gabled house that has been vinyl-sided. It has a slate roof, so was well-built at the time of its construction and has a cross-gable on the east, a two-and-a-half
story ell on the south and an added studio on the south. The house is only two bays wide. It has a a full-width porch on the north that rests on Italianate style chamfered posts with
high impost blocks. It has an Italianate style front door with double arched glass panels above a wood paneled base. There is also an arched window in its gable end. The final stylistic
feature of note is the shallow oriel window on the east cross-gable. It has a flared roof and paired window sash. Sash in the house varies from 6/6 to 2/2 and 1/1. The house has a side
porch on the rear ell that rests on chamfered posts with brackets at the eaves. 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: “This house was built shortly after Grant Avenue was opened.
The street first appears on the 1873 Atlas, and was probably opened in the late 1860’s, with the name coming from the North’s victorious general. It was opened through Nathan Clark’s
Bridge Street estate and extended north to the rear lot lines of North Street. Edson P. Clark, who ran an ‘indelible pencil manufactory’ on Strong Avenue in Northampton, lived in Nathan
Clark’s house on Bridge Street at the corner of Grant Ave and probably had this house built for tenants.” 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. 420-P.101, 374-41