Nomination for Building at 8--22 Graves Avenue

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NPS Form 10-900 (3-82) OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries-complete applicable sections 1. Name For NPS use only received SEP 30 1985 date entered historic 8-22 Graves Avenue and/or common 2. Location (same) street & number 8-22 Graves Avenue N/Anot for publication city, town Northampton N/Avicinity of state Massachusetts 3.

Classification Category Ownership .district public X building(s) - private structure both site Public Acquisition object N/Ain process being considered code 025 county Hampshire code 015 Status - occupied x unoccupied X work in progress Accessible X yes: restricted - yes: unrestricted no Present Use agriculture commercial educational entertainment government - industrial military museum park - private residence religious scientific transportation X other: Vacant 4. Owner of Property name R.S. and Lorraine W. Bogartz; Donald J. and Kathyleen E. Teagrio street & number Amity Real Estate, Inc. 274 No. Pleasant Street city, town Amherst N/A vicinity of 5. Location of Legal Description state Massachusetts courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Hampshire County Registry of Deeds street & number King Street city, town Northampton 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys Inventory of Historic and Prehistoric title Assets of the Commonwealth state Massachusetts has this property been determined eligible? - yes X. no date 1980 Inventory #834 federal state county local depository for survey records Massachusetts Historical Commission, 80 Boylston Street city, town Boston state Mass 7. Description 8-22 Graves Avenue, Northampton, Mass Condition excellent good X fair 932 deteriorated _ ruins unexposed Check one X unaltered altered Check one X original site moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

8-22 Graves Avenue is a two-and-a-half story brick rowhouse, twenty-four bays long by two bays deep. The plan is rectangular and contains eight single-family dwellings. The building is Queen Anne/Panel Brick in style. It occupies a level, unlandscaped lot along the north side of Graves Avenue, a dead-end street running in an east-west direction perpendicular to Market Street. Graves Avenue is located just outside the northwest corner of the Downtown Northampton Historic District. Other buildings on:Graves Avenue are late 19th century residences, among which are single and multiple-family structures, including double houses, three deckers and two other rowhouses, both smaller and of more recent construction than 8-22 Graves and both of frame construction. 3TEVA 227300 8-22 Graves Avenue is constructed of red brick, some of it in deteriorated condition.

The building rests on a half-story brick basement capped with a three-brick-wide water table course. The dominant feature of the facade is the repeated rhythm of projecting window bays and porches breaking out of the plane of the front wall. The walls are laid up in common bond and are ornamented at the first and second floor levels with a double band of tar-dipped bricks. The end gable walls incorporate a sawtoothed course of angled brick between the tar-dipped bands. The roof of the building is a shallow gable with a plain wooden-boxed cornice and short gable returns. The roof contains five chimneys, centered on the ridge and evenly spaced, one on each of the end walls and the remainder at the party walls of the interior units. To the rear of the building are four large projecting ells each four bays wide and two bays deep.

These are constructed of brick laid in common bond with no other ornament. The ells are capped with low pyramidal hip roofs, each containing a single chimney rising from the peak of the hip. 177 The windows throughout the building are set within segmental arched openings, the arches composed of a double row of header bricks. On the principal facades, the uppermost course is of tar-dipped brick and the arch rests on brownstone footings; the sills also are of brownstone. Elsewhere, the window surrounds are of plain brick construction. The windows themselves are double hung wooden sash of 1/1 or 2/2 configuration; the windows are set within wooden enframements topped with carved scrolled ornament filling the span of the arch. The plan of the building is organized into four six-bay wide units. Each of these contains two single-family dwellings.

Each six-bay unit contains two Continued 0hata as01en1 eo yid ilsonionpodto? NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet 8-22 Graves Avenue, Northampt qfem number 7 OMB No.1024-0018 Exp.10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Page 1 central entrance bays flanked by a pair of projecting two-bay pavilions with shallow gable roofs. Within each gable is a small round window. Shed-roofed wooden porches fill the two central bays of each unit and shield the entrances. The doors are panelled below with glazing above; the glazing consists of a central pane surrounded by multiple lights of colored glass. Porch stoops and entrance thresholds are of brownstone.

The interior of each single-family dwelling originally contained three rooms per floor with a narrow hallway and straight-run flight of stairs. The first floor plan consisted of a front entry, a hallway flanked by a parlor, a central dining room and a kitchen at the back. On the second floor, hallway ran the length of the house with two rooms in the front and a third in the rear; the bathroom occupied the north end of the hallway. Only two of the original eight units have retained their floor plans and details. During the 1950s, six of the eight rowhouse units were altered to accomodate separate apartments on each floor. staircases and in the conversion of north facade second floor windows to exterior doorways. In 1982, a public housing grant was used to upgrade the building and, at that time, panelling was applied to the interior plaster walls and the original wood trim was removed.

At present, only the units at 12 and 22 Graves Avenue retain their original floor plans. The only exterior alterations took place in 1982, when eight metal bulkheads were added to the rear (north) wall. The buildings are currently undergoing rehabilitation in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation, taking advantage of the tax incentives set up in the 1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act, as amended in 1984.

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Significance 8-22 Graves Avenue, Northampton, Mass Period prehistoric 1400-1499 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 X 1800-1899 1900 Areas of Significance - Check and justify below .archeology-prehistoric community planning - archeology-historic conservation agriculture economics x architecture education art engineering commerce exploration/settlement communications industry invention landscape architecture religion law literature military - music philosophy politics government science sculpture social/ humanitarian theater transportation x other (specify) community development Specific dates ca. 1887 Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Builder/Architect unknown 8-22 Graves Avenue possesses integrity of_location, design, setting, materials, workmanship and association. The rowhouses at 8-22 Graves Avenue were constructed ca. 1887 during a period of tremendous growth and development expanded significantly in the period from 1870-1915. 8-22 Graves Avenue is typical of the speculative multiple-family tenement housing that grew up in its rowhouse form and brick construction, brick rowhousing never having been a meets National Register criteria A and C as a well preserved Queen Anne/Panel Brick style rowhouse and an excellent example of late 19th century speculative housing related to the development of Northampton as a commercial and transportation center. 8-22 Graves Avenue was built on one of twelve lots laid out in 1884.

The land originally comprised the Elisha Graves Homestead and was the last of the neighborhood's homesteads to be subdivided. The subdivision plan is a good example of late 19th century planning and development. As the attached "Plan of a New Street and Lots Belonging to H.B. Graves" indicates, the lots were regularly laid out squares averaging 75'x80'. The property at 8-22 Graves occupies a portion of Lot 1 and Lots 3 and 5.: The first owner of the building was Silas Cooley, who bought the property from H.B. Graves shortly after the subdivision was platted. Cooley, a young entrepreneur: in real estate , and the tobacco business, was responsible for the construction of the Graves Avenue building. By the end of the century, Cooley, a native of nearby Sunderland, Massachusetts, had established himself as one of Northampton's leading citizens and a major 1andowner.

The property at 8-22 Graves Avenue was one of Cooley's earlier real estate ventures and was constructed for rental purposes, as were most of the houses built along Graves The Graves Avenue neighborhood is located just north and east of a mixed commercial/retail/warehouse area along Market Street. Two hundred feet west of the property is the raised (15 feet) railroad bed of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, formerly the Connecticut River Railroad. the arrival of the railroad in 1845, Northampton's influence as a regional market and industrial center expanded. In the period from 1870-1915, Northampton's population rose by 113.1%; immigrants constituted some 24-25% of the city's population in that period. Many of the city's new citizens either could not afford to purchase housing or were transient workers, staying only as long as there was work.

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

Major Bibliographical References See attached #9 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 7396 s.f. (1.6 acres) Quadrangle name Easthampton UT M References * L118/ 6/915/31810/ Zone Easting 416/818|01210 Northing LuLLL E B Zone D F H Quadrangle scale 1:25000 Easting LILL LILLL Northing LLLLLL LILILIL Verbal boundary description and justification See attached #10 List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries state N/A code county code state N/A code 11. Form Prepared By county code name/title Sarah J. Zimmerman with Joan R. Wiegel, Consultant organization Massachusetts Historical Commission date August 1985 street & number 80 Boylston Street telephone 617-727-8470 city or town Boston state Massachusetts 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: national state X local As thedesignated State Historic Preservation Officer for the NationalHistoricPreservation Act of 1966(Public Law 89- 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated accordingto thecriteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. State Historic Preservation Officer signature Valme ATaemage title Director, Massachusetts Historical Commission date 9/23/85 State Historie Preservation Officer For NPS use only I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Entered ational date 11->-81 #ogtsten Attest: Chief of Registration date U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1983 0 - 419-311 NPSForm 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received date entered Continuation sheet 8-22 Graves Avenue, Northamptoltem number 8 Page 1 numerous, tenement housing was constructed to serve their needs. Locations close to transportation, industrial and commercial areas were favored. Thus, tenement housing for Northampton's working class is found today on the eastern and southern edges of the city, where the railroad lines and small industries had developed. The 'tenants of 8-22 Graves Avenue were members of Northampton's growing working class. Included among them were a photographer, railroad telegraph operator, a printer, lumber dealer, milk contractor and two widows.

Architecturally, 8-22 Graves Avenue reflects the lifestyle of the working class. The floor layout is simple and functional with small rooms (12'x13') that met basic needs. Very little outdoor space was provided, however, the building does display a concern for the architectural modes of its day in the elements of Queen Anne/Panel Brick styling it incorporates. These elements include polychromed tar-dipped brick in bands at the first and second floor and within the relieving arches above the segmental windows; sawtooted angled brick trim in the end walls; scrolled trim within the window enframements; wooden porches with routed and sawn Eastlake style detail; and a lively, repetitive facade enlivened with projecting porches and gable-roofed window bays. The architect and builder of 8-22 Graves Avenue is unknown. Regionally, the rowhouse tenement was an unusual house form for the period.

More typical in heavily-industrialized cities, like Holyoke, were multi-story brick tenement blocks, while in communities with a more mixed commercial/industrial economy, such as Northampton and Springfield, frame concentrated in industrial vilsagesand tended to be of dostle Mas and tended to be of double house form. Rowhousing, of either brick or frame construction, was unusual in the Connecticut Valley. 8-22 Graves Avenue is an exceptional example of this regionally rare multiple family housing.

As a neighborhood, the Graves Avenue building and its setting exist today much as they did in 1895, when a Daily Hampshire Gazette article (November 30, 1895) described Graves Avenue as one of Northampton's "most citified streets." ARCHAEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE Given the small amount of open space within the parcel, it is unlikely that significant prehistoric or pre-1887 archaeological sites are present. There may, however, be occupation related features, especially refuse features, which can help to document the evolution of this early urbanized neighborhood and the social,cultural, and ethnic changes which accompanied it. NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form OMB No.

1024-0018 Expires 10-31-87 For NPS use only Gate entered Continuation sheet8-22 Graves Avenue, Northamptoftem number 9 Page 1 Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, microfilm, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA Northampton Atlas; 1873, 1895,1915. Northampton: The Meadow City, Northampton 1894. Picturesque Northampton, Easthampton, Amherst and Florence, New York, Mercantile Illustrating Co., 1894. Registry of Deeds, Plan of a New Street and Lots Belonging to H. B. Graves, Book 389, p. 471, 1884. Trumbull, James R., History of Northampton, Vol I & II, Northampton, MA, Gazette Printing Co., 1902. The Tercentenary Conmittee, The Northampton Book, ANew England Town, 1651-1954, Brattleboro, Vermont, Alan S. Browne, Inc., 1954.

NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form OMB No.1024-0018 Expires 10-31-87 For NPS use only received date entered Continuation sheet 8-22 Graves Avenue, Northamptoffem number 10 Page 1 Beginning at a point on Graves Avenue eighty (80) feet from the intersection of the Northwesterly side of Graves Avenue and the easterly side of Market Street, said point being S. 7,° W. from the southwesterly corner of the brick block on the premises from the southwesterly corner of the brick block on the premises hereby conveyed, thence N. 58}° E.

along said Graves Avenue one hundred eighty(180) feet to a bound stone; thence northwesterly seventy-eight (78) feet and three (3) inches to a corner; thence southwesterly sixty-seven (67) feet and six (6) inches to a corner; thence northwesterly ten (10) feet to a corner; thence S. 592° W. one hundred twelve (112) feet and six (6) inches to land now or formerly of Avon Matthews and Henry Matthews; thence southeasterly along land now or formerly of said Matthews eighty-six (86) feet to the place of beginning. The above described premises are SUBJECT TO a common passageway fifteen (15) feet in width as set forth in the conveyance from Silas R. Cooley to said Avon C. Matthews and Henry Matthews, dated March 13, 1980, and recorded in Book 431, Page 409.

WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REr# 85002784 Building at 8--22 Graves_Avenue Hamshire County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: -sample Reviewer's comments: request Working No. SEP, ,30 1985 Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due: Action: Dotl: 1185 3/82 - ACCEPT Entered in the -RETURN National Register - REJECT Federal Agency: - 11-14-55 11-7-85 -appeal -NR decision Recom./Criteria Reviewer Discipline. Date _ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: _ technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Category Ownership Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? yes - no 7. Description Condition J excellent good fair deteriorated ruins Junexposed Check one - unaltered -altered Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection Status Accessible Present Use Check one Loriginal site moved date. 8. Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder/Architect summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10.

Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _national state local State Historic Preservation Officer signature date title 13. Other Maps Photographs Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to _ Signed - Date Phone: Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet 8-22 Graves Avenue Northampton, MA 01060 #1 0f 4 Kathyleen Teagno Plumtree Rd. Sunderland, MA 01375 Victorian rowhouse looking NE down Graves Ave. showing Graves Avenue streetscape NO PARKING 8-22 Graves Avenue Northampton, MA 01060 #2 of 4 Kathyleen Teagno Plumtree Ra.

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Graves Nerharyton Mrail 124 Scale 1"= 40' 8. 22% ST- 471 Isaac Darrouís Est. Daved Damor's Est. N. 39" 301E Hampohire Go.Bank. Cert. mail #P284 880 639 TO-CIT ACID JIE LAHATD A The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State Michael Joseph Connolly, Secretary Massachusetts Historical Commission Valerie A. Talmage Executive Director State Historic Preservation Officer September 25, 1985 Carol Shull Keeper of the National Register National Register of Historical Places Department of the Interior National Park Service P.O. 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Dear Ms.

Shull, Enclosed please find the following nomination forms: Mills/Hale/Owen Blocks, 959-991 Main Street, Springfield, MA HPCA Pending: #078-85-MA-85-0249 8-22 Graves Avenue, Northampton, MA HPCA Pending: #0762-85-MA-85-0784 All have been voted eligible by the State Review Board and have been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer. Owners were notified of pending State Review Board Consideration 30-75 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. Comments received to date are attached to the nomination forms. Sincerely, aral Zinmerman Sarah Zimmerman Director of Preservation Planning Massachusetts Historical Commission 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470 SEP 30 1985