Graves Avenue 35.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-85 Easthampton NTH.2042 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 35 Graves Avenue Historic Name: Frank
& Ella Edwards House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl, wood shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows
replaced, ca. 1990. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.093 acres Setting: House faces north on a dead end, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [35 GRAVES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2042 ___ 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 two-and-a-half stories in height under a side-gable roof with a prominent cross-gable
bay on the façade. There is a one-story bay window attached to the front-gable bay. It has a paneled base. In the angle of the two sections of the house is a porch with unusual turned
posts on high pedestals. The porch railing has turned balusters. There is a one-story bay window on the east elevation of the house, and a rear, two-story ell. The design of this house
follows a common pattern for the Queen Anne style. 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 was the first house to be constructed on Graves Avenue. The street had been opened
in 1884 through the Graves homestead on Market Street, and this house was built the same year for Frank Edwards, co-owner of the Edwards Bros. grocery on Main Street. The street was
primarily built up with double houses and rowhousing and by 1895 had reached a state where the Gazette could proclaim it ‘our most citified street.’ This house is one of four, single-family
houses on the street.” 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. 391-P. 390, 389-471