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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 8O BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02116 AREA FORM NO. 326 Iown North Adams MRA Address_365 West Main Street Historic Name Crowley 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 between inventoried property and nearest intersection. Indicate north. Use: Present_Apartment . Original residence DESCRIPTION: Date ca. 1830 Source stylistic details Style_Greek Reviva1/Federal Architect_Unknowo Exterior wall fabric Aluminum siding Outbuildings_None see attached map Major alterations (with dates)_ Aluminum siding added over clapboard. Moved _No _Date N/A Approx. acreage less than one acre Recorded by_Betsy Friedberg Setting The house is located on the western OrganizationMass.
Historical Commission side of North Adams on what remains of the Date July, 1985 main east-west highway through the city (Rt: Wiliiamstown Quadrangle Behind the house are 19th century mills and UTM. reference: 18/653340/4728950 the Hoosac River. (Staple additional sheets here) OCT 25 1985 :52 ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the commmity.) The Crowley House is architecturally distinguished as a locally rare surviving example of transitional Federal-Greek Revival style design. In plan the house is characteristically Greek Revival. in style, with a central section, its full pediment facing the street, and two flanking wings. (The wings, however, are not fully symmetrical). All three entrances are trabeated with Doric pilasters supporting an entablature.
In addition, there are Greek fret moldings around the main entrance. The lunette in the gable end and the rather thin, delicate moldings, however, suggest a carpenter more practiced in the older Federal style. The newell post for the central staircase is also(continued HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the commmity.) Nothing is known about the early history of this house. It is evidently one of the oldest surviving buildings of architectural distinction in the city. The first known owner, Monroe Temple, was an architect-builder whose Downingesque cottage is located in the Blackinton Historic District. Temple lost this property, and his home in Blackinton, through debt in the 1860s. Both properties were sold to John A. Doane. Later owners were Edmund Rice and Henry A. Tower.
David Crowley, a cloths finisher in the mills, owned this house from 1884 until the early part of this century. It is not known if he lived in this house, which appears to have a long history as a rental property. Criteria for Evaluation The Crowley House retains integrity of setting, design, location, and feeling, and association. A rare early survivor of a transitional architectural style, the Crowely House fulfills Criterion C of the National Register of Historic Places. BIBLTOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Record of Deeds, Adams, MA County Atlas of Berkshire County, MA, F.W. Beers NY, 1876 Atlas of the Towns of North Adams, Adams & Williamstown, D.L. Miller, NY, 1894 Architectural Significance: cont'd suggestive of Federal period architecture.
Despite its aluminum siding, this house is important as an unusual example of early nineteenth-century architecture in North Adams. 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 Continuation sheet Item number Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State -North Adams MRA Berkshire Co., MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review Con 1. Monument Square Historic District (B.I) KevIew Keeper Entered In tla Church Street-Caddy National Register Hil1 Historic District (B.I) Blackinton Historic District Entered in the National Register Attest fukeeper Attest fKeeper Attest tReeper Freeman's Grove Historic District Entered 1a the National Register Attest Normal School Historic District Entored 1 1x : blie National Register 6.
Armstrong House Attest Entared 1n bha Natienal Reglater Attest 7. Arnold Print Works Boardman (The) Substentire Xortorkeeper Attest Entered in tle National Register (Keeper 9. Browne, Charles, House Attest 6 Keeper Entered in the National Register 10. Crowley House Entered in the National Register Attest fKeeper Attest OMB NO.
1024-0018 Expires 10-31-87 or NPS uas Onf recelved 9/12/6 date entered Page /12 dnr-l1 auntruksi Date/Signature T- AeenBgen M/zto5 Auens Ayetularlor AemsByuJiula185 Almbgun/:derli SlelouaByun10/2585 Buc ha (angd 1025-85- AucByu1012/05 AulmBzan 01tc65 selerßogun 10125/55 WASO Form - 177 ('R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET 901 85003414 Crowley House (North Adams MRA) Bershire County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: -sample Lrequest SEP, | 2 1985 Working No. Fed. Reg. Date: 3187 Date Due: 16/1 10/85 10/27 Action: LACCEPT Entered 1m I tlad RETURN Nationa] . Hogiwter -REJECT- Federal Agency:.
Jappeal -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 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 -original 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 Crowley House 365 W. Main St. North Adams, Mass. Detail, south elevation. Photo by R.Reed, 1983. Negative at NAHC 78 Crowley House 365 W. Main st. North Adams, Mass. Southeast view. Photo by R.Reed, 1983. Negative at NAHC Crowley House 365 West Main Street North Adams, Mass. North Adams MRA MA 03 =775 800 -72 aproyi location Building Cal hoaed 8 82 60% 67g 61 124t scaled 52 C (01,74 65 52 D 111.48 52 B 93.1.7 5 2 A 84.6 5/ 5/-A 1.012 998S 5922 ,5985 Ceouley Hact E0 6° -B 37.13° Browley House 365 West Main Street Naorth Adams MRA North Adams Assessors! Map, car1915 11=401 65 645 64.5 50 286 60