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	Crowley House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	(2012)
Location	365 W. Main St., North Adams, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°41′59″N 73°7′40″W / 42.69972°N 73.12778°W
Built	c. 1830
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Federal
MPS	North Adams MRA
NRHP reference No.	85003414
Added to NRHP	October 25, 1985

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The Crowley House is a historic house located at 365 West Main Street in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is one a small number of houses in North Adams built in a transitional Federalist-Greek Revival style, and one of its relatively small number of early 19th-century houses. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1]

Description and history

The Crowley House is located west of downtown North Adams on the north side of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 2), just east of Fairgrounds Avenue. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof and two interior end chimneys. The main block is flanked by single-story wings, the left one a single bay wide, and the right one three bays wide. The house follows a fairly typical Greek Revival plan, with a central hall and wings on either side of the main block. The front facade has Greek Revival details, including Doric pilasters and Greek fret molding, but the workmanship of some of the details shows that it was probably done by someone with more practice in the Federal style. The fan in the front gable end is a Federal period feature.^[2]

Little is known of its early history; based on its architecture, a construction date of 1830 is estimated. It first enters the documentary record in the 1860s when its owner defaulted on debts and lost the property. It was occupied from the 1880s into the early 20th century by David Crowley, a clothes finisher working in the local textile mills. It is unknown if Crowley occupied the property, and it appears to have had long use as a rental.^[2]

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Notes

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ ^a ^b "NRHP nomination for Crowley House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-05.

External links

Media related to Houses and apartment buildings in North Adams, Massachusetts at Wikimedia Commons

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Crowley House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-05.

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-The '''Crowley House''' is a historic house located at 365 West Main Street in [[North Adams, Massachusetts]].  It is one a small number of houses in North Adams built in a transitional Federalist-Greek Revival style.  Little is known of its early history; it first enters the documentary record in the 1860s when its owner defaulted on debts and lost the property.  It was occupied from the 1880s into the early 20th century by David Crowley, a clothes finisher working in the local textile mills.  It is unknown if Crowley owned the property.  The house follows a fairly typical Greek Revival plan, with a central hall and wings on either side of the main block.  The front facade has Greek Revival details, including Doric [[pilaster]]s and Greek fret molding, but the workmanship of some of the details shows that it was probably done by someone with more practice in the Federalist style.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url=http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=NAM.610|title=NRHP nomination for Crowley House|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|accessdate=2013-12-05}}</ref>
+The '''Crowley House''' is a historic house located at 365 West Main Street in [[North Adams, Massachusetts]].  It is one a small number of houses in North Adams built in a transitional Federalist-Greek Revival style, and one of its relatively small number of early 19th-century houses.  The house was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1985.<ref name="nris"/>
+==Description and history==
-The house was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1985.<ref name="nris"/>
+The Crowley House is located west of downtown North Adams on the north side of Main Street ([[Massachusetts Route 2]]), just east of Fairgrounds Avenue.  It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof and two interior end chimneys.  The main block is flanked by single-story wings, the left one a single bay wide, and the right one three bays wide.  The house follows a fairly typical Greek Revival plan, with a central hall and wings on either side of the main block.  The front facade has Greek Revival details, including Doric [[pilaster]]s and Greek fret molding, but the workmanship of some of the details shows that it was probably done by someone with more practice in the Federal style.  The fan in the front gable end is a Federal period feature.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url=http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=NAM.610|title=NRHP nomination for Crowley House|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|accessdate=2013-12-05}}</ref>
+Little is known of its early history; based on its architecture, a construction date of 1830 is estimated. It first enters the documentary record in the 1860s when its owner defaulted on debts and lost the property.  It was occupied from the 1880s into the early 20th century by David Crowley, a clothes finisher working in the local textile mills.  It is unknown if Crowley occupied the property, and it appears to have had long use as a rental.<ref name=NRHP/>
 ==See also==
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 [[Category:1830 establishments in Massachusetts]]
 [[Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Berkshire County, Massachusetts]]
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 [[Category:Greek Revival architecture in Massachusetts]]
 [[Category:Federal architecture in Massachusetts]]