Harrison Avenue 20.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 31A-230 Easthampton NTH.542 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 20 Harrison Avenue Historic Name:
Allen R. Clark House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1913 Source: Directory, Atlas, and SDR Style/Form: Craftsman/Colonial
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: stucco Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.275 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house on a shady, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [20 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.542 _x__ 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 house is a combination of the Colonial Revival style and the Craftsman
style, a relatively common stylistic merger in the second decade of the 20th century. More traditional and slightly earlier than its Arts and Crafts neighbor next door at 14 Harrison,
this house shares the stucco exterior and paring down of ornament that marked the Craftsman movement. It is a two-story house under a gable-on-hip roof. It is three bays wide and the
center bay is a projecting pavilion that contains a Colonial Revival portico on columns topped with a wrought iron balustrade. The door surround is also Colonial Revival as it is trabeated
and has respondent pilasters supporting an entablature. Windows, however, are triple compositions meant to simplify the exterior and add more light to the interior. Roof eaves extend
much further than the eaves of earlier Colonial Revival houses and a one-story porch wing on the north is glassed in by bands of windows. 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 house was built for Allen Clark in 1913 at a cost of $6000. Mr. Clark was a foreman for the Northampton Street Railway Company. Harrison Avenue as opened in 1890 and quickly became
one of the most fashionable streets in Northampton. Most of the houses on the street were built around the turn of the century.” 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [20 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.542 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a potential historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side
streets laid out on the south side of Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district
is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of the development
of Northampton from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for attendance at Smith
College, and the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a shift from gentlemen’s
estates to accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers. According to criterion
C this district would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles are
all well-represented within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time.