Graves Avenue 11-13.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-90 Easthampton NTH.2045 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 11-13 Graves Avenue Historic Name:
Napoleon Petit House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Two-family house Date of Construction: 1887 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas & SDR Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x |
yes | | Date Acreage: 0.135 acres Setting: This is a north-facing house on a dead end, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [11-13 GRAVES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2045 ___ 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 is based on a Queen Anne style plan and elevation that appears more than once in Northampton
and on Graves Avenue it is also found at #34-36. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a side-gable roof and has two cross-gable bays projecting from the façade. Between the two
bays is a porch, in this case of one-story, with a shed roof, turned posts and jigsaw-cut railing. It shelters two, side-by-side doors. The exterior of the house has been well-preserved
with bands of scalloped shingles separating the stories. Scalloped shingles are also in the gables of the house. A single, front-gable dormer is centered over the front porch. 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, a subdivision plan was filed for Graves Avenue. Lots were sold for residential development, and in 1886 Napoleon Petit bought lot no. 4
for $900. The next year, he had his double house built at a cost of $3200. Mr. Petit may have been the builder himself, but the property was foreclosed on soon afterwards and sold in
1893 to George Dragon, a barber. This is the first of three double houses in a row on this side of Graves Avenue.” 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. 457-P. 91, 403-14