Ladd Avenue 15.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 30B-80 Easthampton NTH. 439 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 15 Ladd Avenue Historic
Name: H. Ladd House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1865-1870 Source: Registry of Deeds, 225.208, 277.1 Style/Form: Gothic
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows replaced, ca. 1990 and windows infilled and their label lintels removed. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.487 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner
lot in a neighborhood mixed with 19th century factory buildings and residences bordered by the Mill River.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [15 LADD AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.439 ___ 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 Harlow Ladd House was built before 1873 and is Gothic Revival in style although it has lost
many of its original architectural features since 1980. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof that is steeply pitched. The house is three bays wide and has cross-gable
bays on both east and west elevation as well as a one-and-a-half story ell on the south. There are three, through-cornice dormers on the west elevation with steeply-pitched front-gable
roofs. The house has a full-width porch on the north façade that is supported on posts with high pedestals. Formerly pointed arch windows on all the elevations of the house have been
altered and filled in with the exception of one remaining in the gable field of the north façade. This is a significant loss to the house as the alteration to the fenestration also involved
removal of the label lintels that often characterize the Gothic Revival style. 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 1975: “This rural gothic cottage was built between 1865 and 1870
on land purchased from the Bay State Hardware Company, one of the many industrial concerns which occupied the site of the present Northampton Cutlery Company. Edward Foster purchased
the unimproved land for $275 in 1864 and sold the ‘land with homestead buildings’ for $2700 in 1871 to Harlow Ladd. It is probable that the dwelling was not constructed by 1868 when
Foster sold a right of way through the property; no mention of structures on the property is made on the deed.” 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, Hampshire County, 1123.188, 983.318, 942.496,923.451, 893.209, 833.233, 822.260, 818.63, 805.348, 595.291, 27.1, 225.208, 254.94