Graves 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 32A-91 Easthampton NTH.846 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 1-7 Graves Avenue Historic Name: Dr.
David Hall Rowhouses Uses: Present: Rowhouses Original: Rowhouses Date of Construction: 1885-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2005. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.82 acres Setting: This building faces north at the entry to a dead end, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [1-7 GRAVES AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.846 ___ 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 well-maintained set of Queen Anne style frame rowhouses is two-and-a-half stories in height
under a side-gable roof. The eight-bay façade has two projecting, shed-roof pavilions that contain two, side-by-side doors crossed by hipped roof porches on three turned posts with brackets
at the eaves. The porches have one-story, three-sided, angled bay windows at each side, one per rowhouse unit. Six dormers with front-gable roof are aligned on the north façade roof.
The two dormers over the pavilions are larger in size and contain in their gable ends embellished King Post trusses. The siding of the block is typically Queen Anne with a band of shingles
bordered by stringcourses separate the clapboards of first and second stories. The frieze below the eaves is made of vertical siding. 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:
“In 1884, Henry B. Graves filed a subdivision plan for Graves Avenue. This street was opened off Market Street, through the Graves homestead. This was the last remaining Colonial homestead
on Market Street, with the others having been subdivided earlier in the 19th century. The street was quickly developed and by 1895, fourteen of the present fifteen residential buildings
had been constructed. There were a mixture of residential types including single-family houses, double houses, a “triple-decker’ and several rowhouses of varying lengths. This led to
the local paper calling Graves Avenue ‘our most citified street.’ In 1885, David Hall, a physician at the Northampton State Hospital bought lot no. 2 on Graves’ plan. This corner lot
was soon developed with this four tenement row.” 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. 398-P.87