Highland Avenue 27.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-192 Easthampton NTH.404 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 27 Highland Avenue Historic Name:
William Bingham House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Shed Major Alterations (with dates): Siding applied, windows replaced, 2009-10. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.132 acres Setting: This is a north-facing house on a narrow residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [27 HIGHLAND AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.404 ___ 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 with a front-gable roof whose eaves make full returns on the
north façade to create a pediment at the attic level. The north façade is three bays wide and the first story is recessed beneath the second with a porch, two-bays wide, adjacent to
an angled, one-story bay window. A cross-gabled bay on the west elevation is two-and-a-half stories in in height under a pedimented gable. There is a one-story ell on the south. One
of the few decorative elements remaining is an arched brace between posts on the front porch. This is an uncommon elevation for a Queen Anne house in Northampton. 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: “Highland Avenue was opened between 1884 and 1895 through Charles Steven’s North Street homestead. This was the northernmost of the streets which cut through the
colonial homesteads on Market and North Streets. These streets, as the homesteads had, extended easterly to the Bridge Street Cemetery. Nine of the present thirteen residential structures
are shown on the 1895 atlas and the other four were built by 1915. This house first appears on the 1895 atlas as property of William Bingham, an employee of the Northampton Paper Box
Company on North North 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.