Harrison Avenue 82.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-219 Easthampton NTH.531 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 82 Harrison Avenue Historic Name:
Dr. Albert Belden House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1905 Source: Atlas & Directory Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles, clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.209 acres Setting: This house faces northwest on a quiet, residential street. It occupies a corner lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [82 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.531 __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 is a fine Colonial Revival style house with a hipped roof over two-and-a-half stories. It
is asymmetrical with a cross-gable bay projecting from one side of the west façade and a porch on Doric columns set in the angle between the main block and the projecting gable bay.
The porch wraps around to the north elevation. The house is clapboard-sided on the first story and shingle-sided on the second story and gable field, and there is a shallow jetty between
stories. The house has a hipped roof dormer on the west and on the south elevation is a one-story, angled bay window, both features that increase the interior volume. In the west gable
field is a Palladian window composition, a favored Colonial Revival feature. 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 1890, Harrison Avenue was opened for residential development.
Most of the houses on the street were built during the turn-of-the-century period and illustrate the eclecticism of the period. The street quickly became one of the most fashionable
in the city. The first known owner of this house was Dr. Albert Belden, a physician, listed here in the 1905 directory.” 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 ] [82 HARRISON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.531 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.