Armstrong House (North Adams, Massachusetts)

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Armstrong House
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Location60 Brooklyn St.,
North Adams, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°42′26″N73°6′44″W / 42.70722°N 73.11222°W / 42.70722; -73.11222 Coordinates: 42°42′26″N73°6′44″W / 42.70722°N 73.11222°W / 42.70722; -73.11222
Arealess than one acre
Builtc. 1875
Architectural style Italianate
MPS North Adams MRA
NRHP reference No. 85003394 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 25, 1985

The Armstrong House is a historic house located in North Adams, Massachusetts. Built about 1875, it is a well-preserved example of a locally idiosyncratic Italianate style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1985. [1]

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Description and history

The Armstrong House is located on a residential street on the north side of North Adams, on the east side of Brooklyn Street. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a low hip roof supported by decorative brackets at the corners and studded with modillion blocks. Its main entrance is in the leftmost bay, with a portico that is also bracketed, with 20th-century columns and balustrade that are sympathetic to its Italianate style. A single-story polygonal bay projects from the right side of the main block. A two-story ell extends to the rear, connecting the house to a barn that is of the same vintage as the house, with an oculus window in its gable end. Extending across the ell's side is a bracketed shed-roof porch. [2]

The house was built in 1875, during North Adams' industrial boom time. Its combination of features are a locally distinctive variant of the Italianate style, which is found repeated elsewhere in the community. The house was built for W. W. Armstrong, a worker at the Arnold Print Works, and is considered one of North Adams' best-preserved Italianate houses. [2]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Armstrong House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-05.