Plymouth Avenue 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 17C-182 Easthampton NTH.106 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 28 Plymouth Avenue Historic
Name: Joseph Wood House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1911 Source: Street Directories 1910-1911 Style/Form: Queen Anne/Colonial
Revival Architect/Builder: Joseph Wood, Builder, attributed Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingled Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Carriage barn/shop Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.37 acres Setting: This house faces east at the end of a short street that abuts
a depressed former railroad line that is now a rail trail.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [28 PLYMOUTH AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.106 ___ 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 Wood House was built at the end of the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style periods and shows
elements of both these styles in it plan and elevations. The house is two–and-a-half stories under a side-gable roof and it has an angled cross-gable on its east façade as well as a
one-story glazed porch on its west elevation. This is the best-preserved house on the street and maintains its historical features. From the Queen Anne style is the varied floor plan
that provided multiple rooms on the interior and gave the exterior a measure of visual activity. The exterior of the house with its clapboards on first and second stories and shingles
in the gable ends above jetties and on the stacked porch’s solid railing and roof shows Queen Anne style as well. However, the ornament that typified the Queen Anne has been traded for
the classical forms of the Colonial Revival style, found in the first floor porch supports that are Doric columns and the use of pediments in the porches. Leaded glass transoms were
used in both Queen Anne and Colonial Revival periods. Sash in the house is 1/1 and 2/2. 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: “Around the turn of the century, three short
streets were opened north of Main Street and south of the railroad tracks in Florence. These were Plymouth, Fairfield, and Sumner Avenues. This house was built at the end of Plymouth
Avenue, directly south of the tracks.” Joseph Wood is the first listed owner of this house in 1911 and as he was a carpenter, it is probable that he built the house in that year. 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.