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AREA FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET; BOSTON, MA 02116 FORM NO. 229 Town North Adams MRA Address 60 Brooklyn Street Historic Name Armstrong House PHOTO: (3x3" or 3x5", black & white) staple to left side of form Photo number 'SKETCH MAP Show property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and/or geographical features. Indicate all buildings betwees inventoried property and nearest intersection. Indicate north. Use: Present_Residence Original Residence DESCRIPTION: Date Sourcemaps .- Style Italianate Architect Unknown Exterior wall fabric_Clapboard Outbuildings_Barn (attached) Recorded byBetsy Friedberg Organization Mass, Historical Cormission Date_August, 1985 North Adams Quadrangle UTM Reference: 18/654540/4729810 Major alterations (with dates) Front porch columns and rail replaced, mid 20th century. Moved NO Date N/A Approx.
acreage Less than one acre Setting The Armstrong House - is set 15 feet hack from the street in a hilly, thickly settled neighborhood in northeastern North Adams. (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the commmity.) The Armstrong House is one of the best preserved of a regionally specific cluster of Italianate-style houses in the area. The building's square plan, low-hipped roof supported by brackets, three bay facade, side-hall plan, bracketed portico, and poly- gonal bracketed bay are all components of a style found throughout North Adams. Mid- 20th century columns and balustrade supporting the entry portico do little to detract from the building's integrity. The rear ell, spanned by a bracketed porch, and attached barn are contemporaneous with the main part of the building.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the commmity.) This house was built for W. W. Armstrong, an employee of Arnold Print Works. location in the hills north of the Hoosac River made it convenient to the factory on the southern side of the riverbank. Its construction in the early 1870s was part of an intensive building boom in the last decades of the 19th century, and reflects North Adams' general prosperity at the time. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) North Adams and Vicinity Illustrated H. H. Bailey, Birds-eye Lithograph of North Adams, 1875.
Criteria for Evaluation The Armstrong House, a well-preserved example of a local version of the Italianate style, retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, ano feeling, as well as associations with North Adams' late 19th century "golden age". It thus fulfills Criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places. 10M - 7/82 NPS Form 10-900-8 (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 NPS UER CF ecelved 9pa, date entered Continuation sheet Item number Page 11 2 Multiple Resource Area Thematie Group dnr-11 Name State -North Adams MRA Berkshire Co., MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Conn acuptiuksi Date/Signature Monument Square Historic District (B.I) Suisaenaae LevIew Keeper Entered in tha Church Street-Caddy National Register Hill Historic District (8.I) 3. Blackinton Historic District Entered in the National Register 4. Freeman's Grove Historic District Entered 1n the National Register Attest fKeeper dlBgen a/2t05 Attest fKeeper AheusByenul2t/o5 Attest fReeper AeluusByuniukt85 Normal School Historic District Attest (Keeper Entered In täe National Register AliluaByua lode ti 6. Armstrong House 7. Arnold Print Works Boardman (The) 9.
Browne, Charles, House Entared thie Attest National SlelorerSgen10/25105 Hegiater Attest Subebantire Kertenfsceper Buce ha Drugd 102585 Attest Entered ia tha National Register fKeeper AhiBjud0025185 Attest Entered in the National Register 6Keeper AulmaBgan 101+r65 10. Crowley House Entered in the National Register Attest fKeeper Attest seburßzun 10120/85 Re#85003394 WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Armstrong House (North Adams MRA) Bershire County Berkshire MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: sample request SEP Working No.- Fed. Reg.
Date:2/3/87 Date Due: 10 10/ 85 Action: -ACCEPT Entered 1n che Mational Register RETURN REJECT- Federal Agency: 1 2 1985 -appeal NR decision Recom./Criteria Reviewer Discipline. Date 02718 10-25 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 excellent good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed 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 .
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