Crescent Street 213-215.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 24C-187 Easthampton NTH.320 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 213-215 Crescent Street Historic Name:
Reese Richards-Guy Emerson House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Two-family residence Date of Construction: 1915-1922 Source: Atlas and Directory Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick, shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.309 acre Setting: This is an east-facing house on a quiet, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [213-215 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.320 __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 that was designed in a plan and elevation
common to single-family Colonial Revival homes, but divided into two living units. It has a hipped roof with two interior chimneys and a centered, hipped dormer with a band of 6/1 window
sash. The roof has wide eaves overhangs supported on brackets. The house is brick on the first story and wood shingles on the second story – a feature found during the later phase of
the Colonial Revival style. The east façade of the house has two center bays flanked at each side by angled bay windows. At the first story level, the center two bays are occupied by
entries to the two units. A full-width porch crosses the east façade. It is supported on four Doric columns and its entry stairs are marked by a pediment on the porch roof. The house
is four bays deep and there are rear porches on the west elevation. 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: “Crescent Street was laid out in 1886 and quickly became on of the
most fashionable streets to build upon in Northampton. Development continued well into the 1920’s. This large double house was built around 1920. In the 1922 directory, Reese Richards,
a Main Street jeweler, and Guy Emerson, office manager for the Florence Manufacturing Company are listed at this address.” 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] [213-215 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.320 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 Richards-Emerson 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 the potential historic district 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 Richards-Emerson House is a fine example of the
Colonial Revival style. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.