College Lane 51.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 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 31D-11 Easthampton NTH.734, Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 51
College Lane Historic Name: Charles A. Maynard House Uses: Present: Smith College Offices Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1879-1880 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form:
Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: parged brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with
dates): Addition put on north, 1960. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 6.62 acres Setting: This property is on the northeast edge of Paradise Pond on a ridge above
the pond.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [51 College Lane] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.734 ___ 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 two-and-a-half story house is a fairly early example of the Colonial Revival style in Northampton.
The Colonial Revival style took its inspiration from buildings constructed for the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial and although it spread quickly, the ca. 1879-1880 date indicates the building
was among the first in that style in Northampton. The house has a side-gable roof that extends on the west to create a saltbox profile, a house form displayed at the Centennial. The
house is three bays wide and four bays deep and has a porch across the west elevation and one on the east façade. The east porch is one bay wide sheltering the center entrance to the
building. It is pedimented and rests on posts that are connected by a railing of square balusters. Window sash is 2/2. As a workers’s house originally, this building with its space and
amenities would be at the level of a superintendents’s house rather than a floor worker. 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 1979, “Charles A. Maynard purchased in 1879 the
properties of the Clement and Hawkes Manufacturing Company at the foot of what was then called Mill Lane for the manufacture of hoes and other garden equipment. He built soon after this
cottage on the northwest side of what is now College Lane. It was occupied by Daniel Riley, machinist, Maynard’s employee. In 1917 Maynard sold the whole factory property to Smith College.
The house was then occupied by Franklin King, the superintendent of buildings and grounds at Smith. In about 1940 the building was reassigned to the newly founded College Faculty Club.
It was occupied by Miss Randall, the Dean of the College, for a decade from 1950-1960. In 1960 the College built the present Faculty Center which was attached to the cottage structure,
when it returned to its earlier function as a part of the Faculty Club building.” 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] [51 College Lane] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.734