Henshaw Avenue 37.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 31B-175 Easthampton NTH.655 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 37 Henshaw Avenue Historic Name: Lewis
Warner House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1866-1869 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes
| | Date Acreage: 0.265 acres Setting: House faces west towards a wooded hillside.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [37 HENSHAW AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.655 _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. The Warner House is an Italianate style house, two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable
roof with a one-and-a-half story wing on the north under a side-gable roof. The house is shingle sided and the main block is three bays wide and three bays deep while the wing is four
bays long. The house has a full-width porch across its west façade supported on chamfered posts that are set on high pedestals. Connecting the posts is a railing with a similar jigsaw
cut pattern as the railing at 17 Henshaw Avenue. The eaves at the main roof make full returns to form a pediment and they are supported on paired Italianate brackets. Windows in the
house have projecting cornice lintels that rest on small brackets and they have 2/2 sash. In the pediment of the west façade is a half-round window. The wing has a secondary entry under
a hood that is supported on braces. Second floor windows are small and have 2/2 sash. There are single brackets at the eaves of the wing, so it is less ornamented. 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: “During the latter part of the 1860’s Henshaw Avenue was opened up through the western part of the Charles Talbot estate. In 1866, Silas Whitney of Belchertown bought
lot no. no. 9 for $400. The 1872 atlas shows this house, with Mr. Whitney owning it, but Lewis Warner, the treasurer of the Hampshire Savings Bank and cashier at the Hampshire County
National Bank, resided here.” 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. 306-P.404, 261-182, 237-335
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [37 HENSHAW AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.655 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. The Warner House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor,
Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few
gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years
to the present. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival
and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Warner House is a good example of the Italianate style.
This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.