Lexington Avenue 45.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 30A-47 Easthampton NTH.425 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 45 Lexington Avenue Historic
Name: William Frawley House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1867 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: metal, slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2005. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.5 acres Setting: This is a south-facing house at the top of a dead-end residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [45 LEXINGTON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.425 ___ 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 Frawley House represents the type of housing constructed by and for the developing middle class
of Northampton in the last quarter of the 19th century. It is two stories in height under a side-gable, slate-covered roof with a center chimney. The clapboard-sided house is only three
bays wide and one bay deep but has a two-story wing on the east and a one-story ell on the north elevation that double its size. Across the south façade of the main block of the house
is a shed-roofed porch on posts with elaborate brackets at its eaves, a Queen Anne style porch. Set back from the plane of the main façade is the wing with its metal roof. It is three
bays long and one bay deep and here as well as the main block of the house windows have been replaced with 1/1 vinyl sash. 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: “In 1867, the Bay
State Hardware Company filed a subdivision plan for Main Street (now Riverside Drive), High Street (now Lexington Avenue), and Maple Street (now Liberty Street). The plan was for residential
lots, and would enable the cutlery workers to live nearby and heave their own lot of land. In many cases, the houses were originally owned by the company sold to the workers after a
number of years. William Frawley, a grinder at the Bay State Hardware Company, bought lots #26 and #28 ‘with buildings’ for $800 in 1867. This might mean the present house, but the price
seems rather low. Mr. Frawley is shown as the owner of this house on the 1873 Atlas.” 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. 241-P. 322, 240-190