Washington Avenue 4.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 31A-74 Easthampton NTH.482 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 4 Washington Avenue (formerly 240 Elm)
Historic Name: Stevenson House Uses: Present: Apartments Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1870-1880 Source: Deeds & street maps Style/Form: Queen Anne/Eastlake
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.244 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot on in a residential section of Elm Street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [4WASHINGTON AVENUE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.482 ___ 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 Stevenson House is a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne house with Eastlake ornamentation. Charles
Eastlake manufactured furniture with incised floral patterns that became popular in architecture as well. To fill its long narrow lot, the front-gable house is three bays wide and about
nine bays deep. It is clapboard sided and its stories and bays are sectioned off by wide stringcourses, cornerboards and beltcourses. The house has two cross-gables on the east and has
a two-and-a-half story ell that appears to be a later addition with its gable peak rising above the ridge of the main block of the house. The major gables of the house are all ornamented
with scroll-cut bargeboards and the broad eaves rest on consoles at their corners. Incised Eastlake ornament fills the gable peaks. A full width porch on chamfered posts has Eastlake
ornamented capitals with braces at the eaves. The railing is jigsaw cut in an arched pattern. A similar side porch at the northeast corner of the house contains a secondary entry. Windows
in the house have 2/2 sash and on the first floor they have footed sills. On both first and second floor windows lintels are capped. 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 1977: “Land in
this area, the property of Asa Wright, was plotted in 1870 when Washington Avenue was opened from Elm Street. Wright sold a lot on the corner of Elm and Washington to Benjamin Stevenson.
The 1884 Map of Northampton indicates that C. A. Stevenson was the resident of this house. Ownership and life use of the house alternates from Stevenson family to Carleys. A.G. Carley
is indicated as resident on the 1895 Map. In 1940, the house was purchased from Carley by Victor De Paola, father of present owner, Mrs. Robert Jeffway. De Paola built an addition on
the Washington end of the house and changed the entrance from 240 Elm to 4 Washington Avenue. He also converted the house into apartments.” 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: Book 373 p. 235