{"nrhp_refnum":"85002784","name":"Building at 8-22 Graves Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8--22 Graves Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Northampton","county":"Hampshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.32193507200003,"lon":-72.62851892399993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story red brick rowhouse containing eight single-family dwellings at 8-22 Graves Avenue, Northampton, Massachusetts, built about 1887 on the north side of a dead-end street near Market Street.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a well-preserved Queen Anne/Panel Brick rowhouse and an excellent example of late 19th century speculative worker housing tied to Northampton's growth as a rail and commercial center. Brick rowhousing was rare in the Connecticut Valley, making the building unusual regionally. The 1884 subdivision of the Graves homestead is also cited as a good example of period planning.","narrative":"Eight single-family houses share a long brick block at 8-22 Graves Avenue in Northampton, Massachusetts, built around 1887 for Silas Cooley, a young real estate and tobacco entrepreneur. He built it as rental housing on lots platted in 1884 from the Elisha Graves homestead. Early tenants included a photographer, a railroad telegraph operator, a printer, a lumber dealer and a milk contractor. The building shows Queen Anne and Panel Brick styling, including bands of tar-dipped brick, sawtooth brickwork in the end walls, scrolled window trim and wooden porches with Eastlake detail. It matters because brick rowhouses were unusual workers' housing in the Connecticut Valley, where frame two-family and three-decker houses were more typical. It reflects Northampton's rapid growth after the railroad arrived and its population rose by more than 113 percent between 1870 and 1915. Interiors were altered in the 1950s and 1982, but the exterior remains largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown; built for Silas Cooley","architectural_style":"Queen Anne/Panel Brick","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant, with rehabilitation under way under the Secretary of the Interior's Standards; six of eight units were altered in the 1950s and only two retain original floor plans.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.126668-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/99/7953/63795399/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/85002784.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002784/046cd6c132-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002784/046cd6c132-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Juro2351","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:8-22Graves.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Juro2351</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:8-22Graves.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795399","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_at_8%E2%80%9322_Graves_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4986581"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampshire-county/building-at-8-22-graves-avenue-85002784/"}