Highland Avenue 14-20.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 25C-185 Easthampton NTH.403 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 14-20 Highland Avenue Historic Name:
C.E. Stevens Apartments Uses: Present: Apartments Original: Apartments Date of Construction: ca. 1890 Source: Atlases, visual evidence Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl, wood shingles Roof: asphalt shingles and metal Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding applied, windows
replaced, porches altered and doors replaced, ca. 1980-2000. Condition: fair-poor Moved: no | x | | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.131 acres Setting: This is a south-facing building on a narrow
residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [14-20 HIGHLAND AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.403 ___ 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 two-and-a-half story house under a pyramidal hipped roof with three-story towers under
bell-shaped roofs at its southwest and southeast corners. On the south façade between the two towers is a two-story, stacked porch under a shed roof and resting at both stories on half-length,
fluted posts. Railings are solid shingle-sided. On the first story level the porch leads to four entries in a row with four, faux-historical doors. Centered above the porches on the
south façade is a cross-gable dormer. To add complexity to the Queen Anne style house there are two cross-gable bays on both the east and west elevations of the house. The cross-gable
bays nearer the south are gabled and the ones on the north end are hipped. The upper story of the building is wood shingle sided and the first story is vinyl-sided with both vertical
and horizontal siding. 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 1976: “C. E. Stevens owned a homestead on North Street to the rear of which Highland Avenue was opened in the period
1885-1895. Stevens owned three lots on the new street and built a shingle style apartment block on the westernmost of the lots in 1895.” 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.