Elm Street 134.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. 1FORM 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 31B-245 Easthampton NTH.701 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 134 Elm Street Historic Name: W. T.
Clement House Uses: Present: Smith College dormitory Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1880 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette August 21, 1880. Style/Form: French Second
Empire Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: brick, limestone Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.445 acres Setting: This building is set on a corner lot north of Paradise Pond.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [134 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.701 ___ 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 W. T. Clement House consists of a brick, two-and-a-half story building that is L-shaped in
plan and French Second Empire in style under its moderate mansard roof (moderate as its second pitch is very shallow). Typical of the French Second Empire is the use of features from
the Italianate style found here: the bracketed eaves, arcaded porch on chamfered posts and high pedestals. The asymmetrical house has elaborate through-cornice brick dormers with parapet
roofs as well as pedimented dormers on the lower slope of the roof. The building’s surface is treated with picturesque details such as ornamental brickwork on the through-cornice chimney,
stringcourses of angled brick alternating with tarred brick, and varied contrasting window lintels – straight limestone on the first floor and pedimented limestone on the second floor.
In the angle between the two sections of the house is a stacked porch. The porch is partially enclosed in brick on the first story to accommodate an arched entry. It has an open section
that rests on chamfered posts on paneled pedestals. A second story section is set above the enclosed portion of the porch. It is more ornate with paired posts beneath heavily bracketed
eaves. Attached to the east elevation of the Pierson House is a three-story clapboard-sided dormitory wing. The wing has been designed to fit into the stylistic context of the house
with its bracketed bracketed eaves and stringcourse between stories. 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 1976, “One of W. F. Pratt’s last significant houses, this brick and
stone residence was built in 1880 for W. T. Clement. (Clement had owned and built at least one other residence on Elm Street.)…W. T. Clement sold his new residence one year after its
construction and the second owner, B. S. Lyman, proceeded to gut the interior of the brick structure and redesign the floor plan.” 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.