Dryads Green 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 31A-265 Easthampton NTH.570 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 57 Dryads Green Historic Name: Uses:
Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | | yes | | Date Acreage:
0.196 acre Setting: This is a west-facing house near the end of a dead end street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [57 DRYADS GREEN] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.570 _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 one of the more modest houses on Dryad’s Green. It is a two-and-a-half story house with
a front-gable roof whose eaves make full returns to form a pediment. A Colonial Revival style house, there is a Palladian window composition in the tympanum of the pediment. There is
a cross gable on the north elevation. The house is three bays wide and has a side hall entry. There is a hipped roof dormer on the south elevation. A shed-roof porch crosses the west
façade and is supported on posts. One the house’s Colonial Revival details is a dentil row that crosses beneath the eaves and at the window lintels. 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: “Dryads Green was opened in 1980 as part of Hammond and Sullivan’s subdivision off of Elm Street, which also included Harrison Avenue. The 1895 atlas shows three houses
on the street, and this is one of them. The name next to the house is Radzinski, but no one of that name is listed on Dryads Green in the 1895-1896 directory.” 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] [57 DRYADS GREEN] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.570 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. This property would contribute to a potential historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side
streets laid out from Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district is significant
according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of the development of Northampton
from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for attendance at Smith College, and
the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a shift from gentlemen’s estates to
accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers. According to criterion C this district
would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles are all well-represented
within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time.