Crescent Street 57.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-244 Easthampton NTH.343 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 57 Crescent Street Historic Name:
John T. Stoddard House Uses: Present: Five-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1891-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Colonial
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl, wood shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added and windows replaced, ca. 1990 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.388 acre Setting: This is a west-facing house that occupies a lot on a ridge that
slopes down to the east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [57 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.343 __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. The Stoddard House is a Colonial Revival style house whose proportions are grand although its plan
and elevations are relatively simple. It is two-and-a-half stories under a side gable roof with a cross-gabled pavilion on the front and a shed roof dormer across the rear or east. There
is a portico on the pavilion that is supported on posts and a recessed porch at the northwest corner of the house that also rests on posts. The pavilion is three bays wide and a stair
window spanning first and second stories occupies the center bay flanked by small windows with 6/1 sash. The stair window is composed of Queen Anne style multi-paned windows separated
by paneling. Above the stair window at the attic level is a pedimented gable with a centered Palladian window composition in its field. The pediment projects from the plane of the house
and is supported on shingled consoles. The house has vinyl siding on the first story and in the gables and has wood shingle siding on the second floor. 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: “In 1891, John Stoddard, a professor of Chemistry at Smith College, purchased lots no. 4 and 5 of the Round Hill Estate subdivision. The next year, he had a $10,000 ‘mansion’
constructed. It was houses like these that led to the Gazette to call Crescent Street one of the most ‘aristocratic’ in the city in 1895. The street had been opened in 1886, and its
location on the middle slopes of Round Hill provided a sweeping vista of the Connecticut River Valley.” 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 444-P. 181, 378-453
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [57 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.343 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 Stoddard 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 Stoddard 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.