Crescent Street 151.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 Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24D-265 Easthampton NTH.353 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 151 Crescent Street Historic Name:
Daniel Lynch House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1900 Source: Atlas and Directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Daniel Lynch, mason Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.298 acre Setting: This is a south-facing house on a curving, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [151 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.353 _x__ 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 a two-and-a-half story Colonial Revival style house under a side-gable roof on which is
centered a front-gabled dormer. The house is three bays wide and two bays deep and has an end wall chimney on the south that laces through the roof eaves, and an interior chimney. Centered
on the east façade is a two-story, stacked, wood porch that rests on triple clustered posts at its outer corners and respondent pilasters at the building façade wall. At the first story
level the porch posts rest on brick piers. Railings have square balusters. The center entry has a door whose upper half is glass and lower half is paneled and that is flanked by sidelights.
At the second story level a second glass and panel door opens on to the upper deck of the porch. Above it at the segmentally arched dormer window is Colonial Revival style festooning
in relief in the window arch. Windows in the house have brownstone sills and lintels and replacement 1/1 sash. Brownstone also creates a watertable encircling the building. As a mason’s
house, the Lynch House between first and second stories at its corners has a corbelled brick set-back, a feature that is highly unusual and perhaps unique in Northampton. 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 Form B of 1980: “This large brick house was built in the latter part of the 1890s by Daniel Lynch, a mason, for his own residence.” 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] [151 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.353 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Lynch House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor,
Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few
gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years
to the present. Architecturally it is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles
of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Lynch House is a fine example of the Colonial Revival style and is exceptionally
well-preserved. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.