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| + | ======Montague House====== | ||
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| + | ===== Design and construction ===== | ||
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| + | Montague House is a 2½ story side gable Greek Revival wood frame structure with corner boards, a glass-enclosed front porch, | ||
| + | a large dormer with a pediment, and a 2½ story side gable rear ell. The main block is nine bays wide and six bays deep. The ell | ||
| + | is nine bays wide. Montague House has an asphalt shingle roof, clapboard siding, wood window sash and a granite foundation. | ||
| + | The enclosed stairway at the east end of the ell has a brick foundation. | ||
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| + | The main entry is in the building’s west elevation, within a glass-enclosed 1-story porch that spans the full width of the house. | ||
| + | The porch has four square Greek Revival posts, clapboard knee walls, and three six-pane fixed windows between each post. The | ||
| + | second story contains a central 6/6 window that has a more closely spaced pair of 6/6 windows on either side. The attic has a | ||
| + | front gable dormer, with a pediment and Greek Revival corner boards, which contains four 6/2 windows. The dormer has a small | ||
| + | 3/2 window on its south and north elevations. | ||
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| + | The south elevation of the enclosed porch contains a nine-pane door that has a 2/3 window on either side. The first and second | ||
| + | stories of the main block’s south elevation each contain a 6/6 window near the west end of the elevation, and two more closely | ||
| + | spaced 6/6 windows near the east end of the elevation. The gable peak has a central 6/6 window. | ||
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| + | The rear ell’s south elevation has a deeply recessed porch that is overhung by the second story. This recessed section contains | ||
| + | two doors and four 6/6 windows. Located to the east of the recessed porch, the south elevation’s front wall has three evenly | ||
| + | spaced 6/6, 2/2 and 6/6 windows, followed by a portico with simple Roman Doric columns and a pediment. The door within this | ||
| + | portico has 2/2 panes in its upper half and a boarded-over panel in its lower half. The east end of the ell has a very narrow shed | ||
| + | roof addition that appears to enclose a stairway to the second story. | ||
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| + | The ell’s east elevation contains a 6/6 window in the second story, set above the slope of the stairway addition’s roof, and a 3/3 | ||
| + | window in the gable peak. | ||
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| + | The stairway addition’s north elevation contains a 3/2 window in the first story and a 2/1 window in its second story. The ell’s | ||
| + | north elevation has a somewhat irregular window and door arrangement. On the first story, this consists of a small 3/3 window, a | ||
| + | slightly larger 2/2 window, six 6/6 windows, and a 6-panel door with 3/2 panes in its upper third. The main block’s north | ||
| + | elevation has an identical window arrangement to what is on its south elevation. The porch’s north elevation contains a doorway, | ||
| + | with two 6-pane fixed windows on the west side of the doorway. | ||
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| + | ===== Montague House ===== | ||
| + | Montague House is a legacy structure that was conveyed with the land when the Massachusetts Agricultural College acquired | ||
| + | the farmland associated with this structure, which appears to have happened in 1923, based on the Facilities Department’s | ||
| + | records. No information has been discovered to date that documents the history of this property before it was acquired by MAC. | ||
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| + | ===== Landscape Analysis ===== | ||
| + | Montague House (1923) is located outside the core of the campus and is not shown on historic campus maps or plans. No | ||
| + | historic photographs of the building have been located; however, based on campus building construction history it is evident that | ||
| + | the landscape associated with Montague House was significantly impacted by the construction of Marks Meadow Elementary | ||
| + | School (originally Furcolo Hall) immediately to the north of the house in 1962, with subsequent additions. Changes in | ||
| + | circulation patterns from residential scale vehicular and pedestrian circulation to institutional scale circulation has resulted in the | ||
| + | addition of bituminous concrete parking areas to the sough of the house and a vehicular turn-around at the eastern side of the | ||
| + | house. The scale of Marks Meadow Elementary School, located immediately to the north and east of Montague House, is | ||
| + | inconsistent with the scale of Montague House. | ||
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| + | ==== Source ==== | ||
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| + | * Massachusetts Historical Commission, UMass Amherst [[http:// | ||
