Graves Avenue 40-44.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-82 Easthampton NTH.2039 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 40-44 Graves Avenue Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Five-family residence Original: Date of Construction: 1894-95 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Wall/Trim:
Roof: Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Moved: no | | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.135 acres Setting:
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [40-44 GRAVES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2039 ___ 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 two-and-a-half story row house is in a form that was used a number of times in Northampton
for multi-family housing. It has a low, hipped roof on which are hipped roof dormers on east and west elevations and two cross-gable bays on the south façade set between three, shed-roofed
porches. The south façade has three-sided bays at each end below shallow polygonal roofs to complete the composition. Unlike some of the other row houses, this building has lost much
of its original appearance by the addition of vinyl siding and vinyl replacement windows. It has high brick foundations and an asphalt shingled roof. 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: “Graves Avenue was laid out in 1884 through the Graves homestead on Market Street. The street was quickly developed and by 1895, fourteen of the present fifteen structures
had been erected. All were residential and they spanned the range of building types. The Gazette called this ‘our most citified street’ because of the double houses and row housing lining
both sides of 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. 464-P. 83