Henshaw Avenue 41.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-171 Easthampton NTH.653 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 41 Henshaw Avenue Historic Name: Elizabeth
Clark House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1893 Source: Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.177 acres Setting: This is a north-facing house on an irregularly shaped lot that slopes steeply down towards the east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [41 HENSHAW AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.653 _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 Clark House is a Colonial Revival style house two-and-a-half stories high under a pyramidal
hipped roof that was the most common roof form in Northampton in the 1880s and 90s. The house is complex in plan with cross-gable bays on west and north, a corner porch on slender columns
in the angle between the north bay and the main block. The west bay has full eaves returns to form form a pediment in which is an arched window flanked by two small panels and surrounded
by scrolled ornament. The composition is suggestive of a Palladian window favored in the Colonial Revival style. The house is clapboard-sided on the first story and shingled above. Diamond
pane sash is used in the main entry sidelights, a second story porch door, and in a triple composition window on the west bay. Diamond pane sash was often used in the early Colonial
Revival period when interpretation of Colonial architecture was freely handled. 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 in 1893 for Elizabeth Clark at a cost
of $5000. It was located at the beginning of the connector between Henshaw Avenue and Crescent Street. Henshaw Avenue had been laid out in the mid 1860’s, but had only extended northerly
to the house next south of this one. It was not until the late 1880’s that Henshaw Avenue was continued northwards. This became Crescent Street and cut along the middle slopes of Round
Hill, almost encircling it and winding up back on Elm Street about ¼ mile west of Henshaw’s junction with Elm 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. 461-P. 219, 426-487 and 493
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [41 HENSHAW AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.653 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 Elizabeth Clark 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 Clark House is a good example of the Colonial Revival
style and would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.