Graves Avenue 46.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-83 Easthampton NTH.2040 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 46 Graves Avenue Historic Name: Napoleon
Brais House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Three-family residence Date of Construction: 1911 Source: Atlases & S.D.R. Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Napoleon Brais Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl, shingles Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.1 acres Setting: House is located at the end of a dead-end st
reet. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [46 GRAVES AVE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2040 ___ 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 triple-decker was not as popular a house form in Northampton as it was in cities in the eastern
part of Massachusetts where the need for housing density was greater. It is a Colonial Revival style building, three stories in height under a flat roof that has wide eaves supported
on brackets. The south façade is divided into a three-story, three-sided bay window that projects slightly from the plane of the façade, and a two-bay section that contains two doors
on the first story, a door and a window on the upper two stories. There is a full-width porch at the first floor level, and it is stacked on the upper two levels crossing only the two-bay
section. Porch supports are fluted Colonial Revival style posts. On the first story, the side-by-side entries have trabeated surrounds with pilasters supporting cornerblocks below an
entablature with a minimal cornice. In the three-sided bay the center openings have large, fixed light windows with stained glass transoms at all three stories. Although vinyl has replaced
first floor clapboards, the building retains some of its Colonial Revival siding with shingles on the upper stories with a slight flare between stories. 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 is one of the few ‘triple-deckers’ in Northampton. Most of the city’s housing stock consists of one and two family houses, with a few apartment buildings built
in the 20th century. Graves Avenue had been opened in 1884 and was quickly developed with fourteen of the present fifteen structures appearing on the 1895 atlas. The Gazette called this
‘our most citified street’ because of the rows and double houses lining both sides of the street. This was the last building to be constructed on the street, and was erected in 1911
at a cost of $6000. Napoleon Brais, a carpenter, was the owner and builder.” 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.