Norwood Avenue 60.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-2 Easthampton NTH.429 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Bay State Address: 60 Norwood Avenue Historic
Name: Thomas Purseglove House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1885 Source: Atlas and Directory Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Shed Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x
| yes | | Date Acreage: 0.5 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot on the lower slopes of a hill giving it a certain prominence in the landscape.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [60 NORWOOD AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.429 ___ 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 Queen Anne house that is in a typical form for the late 19th and
early 20th centuries. The main block of the house is L-shaped in plan under a gable roof, and there is a one-story, shed roofed ell on the west. A porch crosses the building’s two sections
on the east and south. A shed-roofed porch, it has narrow post supports, small brackets at the eaves and in its roof spandrels it has ornamental shingles in Queen Anne style. There are
shingles in the gable ends of the house as well. The house is more notable for its large proportions than for architectural ornament, however. Its tall windows are nearly full-length
on the first story and there is a mixture of 1/1 replacement and 2/2 original sash in windows throughout the house. 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: “Norwood Avenue was
laid out in two sections from Main Street (now Riverside Drive) to Walnut Street, the first being in 1872 and the second in 1883. The northern end of the street was elevated approximately
fifty feet above the southern end and provided fine vistas south to the Mount Tom Range. The area was predominantly inhabited by employees of the two cutlery companies located near here
on the Mill River. The first known owner of this house was Thomas Purseglove, a cutler with the Northampton Cutlery Company, who was first listed here in 1885.” 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.