Norwood Avenue 26-28.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-19 Easthampton NTH.431 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 26-28 Norwood Avenue Historic
Name: Miss M. E. Day House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Two-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no |
x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.285 acres Setting: This house faces east on a residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [26-28 NORWOOD AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.431 ___ 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 the better preserved of two, once-identical, workers’ two-family houses. It is one-and-a-half
stories in height under a front-gable roof on which two chimneys are located on the roof ridge. The house is divided along the ridge into two units with entries to each half on the east
façade behind a Queen Anne style porch. The porch’s shed roof is supported on slender posts with brackets at its eaves. The façade is four bays wide with its two entries in the outer
bays and it is the equivalent of four bays deep. Windows have 2/2 sash and plane surrounds. There is a one-story ell on the west with a side porch opening on the south elevation. Uncomplicated
in plan and elevation, the two workers’ houses represent a relatively rare house form in Northampton. In Florence similar duplexes were constructed but had kitchen wings of one story
that differentiated them. 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 one and a half story cottage was one of the few 19th century double houses built in Bay State. Other than
the brick block at the curve in Riverside Dive, most of the residential development of the 19th century took the form of single-family houses, generally one and a half story cottages.”
Owned by Miss M. E. Day on the map of 1895, this house and its next door neighbor made a pair of two-family houses that were rentals. Miss Mary E. Day was the youngest child of Joseph
and Charlotte Day who had four sons and a daughter. Joseph worked as a grinder at the nearby cutler factory in Bay State. By 1900 Joseph was no longer listed in the census and Mary was
a spooler in the silk mill, living at home with her mother Charlotte. Charlotte listed her occupation as a landlord, so it appears that she tended to the two rentals that were in Mary’s
name. Charlotte and Mary lived nearby in Bay State on Hinckley 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.