Chesterfield Road 1031.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Please see attached continuation sheet. Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley
Planning Commission Date (month /year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 14-003 Easthampton NTH.45 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Leeds
Address: 1031 Chesterfield Road Historic Name: Clapp House Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1800 Source: visual evidence Style/Form:
Federal Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl, clapboards, aluminum Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: New England dairy barn
and small barn converted to garage Major Alterations (with dates): First floor windows enlarged, windows replaced, siding added to wing and on one elevation of house, ca. 1900-2000.
Condition: good; poor barns Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 4.57 acres Setting: This property is set in an agricultural area with cultivated fields and woodland.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [1031 Chesterfield Road] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.45 ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much
space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate
the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This is one of Leeds’ farm complexes that has retained much of its agricultural setting to document
the village’s appearance on its rural roads through much of the 19th and all of the 20th centuries. The clapboard and aluminum-sided house has had some major alterations; it is a two-and-a-half
story building under a side-gable roof with an off-center chimney. It has a one-and-a-a-half story wing four bays wide on the west. The side-gable roof of the wing has a shed roof dormer
on its south elevation that partly rests on a porch roof. The porch crosses the wing and is supported on posts. Both dormer and porch are later additions to the wing. The main block
of the house is three bays wide and second floor windows are typically small and set close to the eaves. First floor windows, however, have been enlarged and a new pedimented door surround
has been constructed. In the gable end at attic level is a remaining 12/12 window sash. Sash throughout the remainder of the house is all replacement 1/1. West of the house is a New
England style dairy barn to which is attached a smaller New England barn that has two garage doors at its south entry. Across the street from the house and apparently belonging to it,
is a third barn that has been converted to a garage. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of
the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. From the Form B of 1980, “This large farm has been in the Clapp family since its establishment. It’s located
at the junction of Marble Brook and Roberts Meadow Brook near the Westhampton line. Chesterfield Road is the old Boston and Albany stage route, and the toll stop for Berkshire section
was located just east of here at the Kennedy Road crossing.“ BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Hales, John G. Plan
of the Town or Northampton in the County of Hampshire, 1831. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895.
Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [1031 Chesterfield Road] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.45