Elm Street 169.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: PVPC Date (month /year): January, 2010 Assessor’s
Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-161-001 Easthampton NTH.2445 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 169 Elm Street Historic Name: Lucille and Mitchell Labuda
House Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1960 Source: assessors records and directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival half-Cape
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: concrete Wall/Trim: aluminum Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): -Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.455 acres Setting: This house is set back from the street uniformly with its neighbors. It occupies a tree-shaded lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [169 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2445 ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. This property is within a local historic district. 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 one-story house under a side-gable roof. It
is three bays wide and two bays deep and has a side entry. Set back on its east elevation is a one-story wing one bay wide. The house had a breezeway on its east elevation that connects
to a single-bay garage. This house follows a plan and elevation that in the late 1950s and 60s 60s were known as a “half-Cape” and plans were available from publishers who printed them
for sale for builders. Now sided, the house displays the lack of ornament favored by the Modern Movement ranch houses, but its more traditional Cape Cod form makes it a popular Colonial
Revival house style. 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. The Labuda House was built in 1960 by Mitchell and Lucille Labuda. Lucille was the chief operator of the telephone company in Northampton
and Mitchell by that time was not working. The property on which the house was built had a long and important history in Northampton. The Labuda House was built on land that had been
part of the first allotment of homelots by the Northampton Proprietors in 1654 along the broad Elm Street. It was part of Lot number 2 assigned to settler Thomas Dewey. The north side
of Elm Street in this area continued to be further divided, settled, and farmed until by the time the map of 1831 was drawn Lots 1-3 that had taken up the north side of Elm Street west
of Round Hill Road had been developed into seven properties. By 1860 the lots that later were to become 169 and 179 Elm Street were part of the W. Clark, Jr. farm property. Clark’s land
had passed into the ownership of J. Howe Demond in 1872 and had become a gentleman’s estate. Demond had a large house set back from Elm Street which became the corner of Elm and Crescent
Streets when Crescent was laid out in the 1880s. Demond lived until 1909 and was in Northampton after retirement as a Springfield dairy farmer, tobacco and vegetable grower. Elm Street
west of Round Hill Road had by the 1870s become a semi-rural area, a mixture of large estates of the well-to-do with large homes and of farms with large pastures. By the 1950s the Demond
house was gone and the land divided into these two lots, allowing this house and that at 179 Elm Street Street to be constructed as 20th century infill. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Hampshire Gazette, June 28, 1909. Trumbull, J. R. “Map of Original 17th c. Homelots”, compiled 1898 for History of Northampton, Massachusetts from its Settlement in 1654, vol. I, Northampton,
1898. Hales, John G. surveyor. Plan of Town of Northampton, 1831, Boston. Walling, Henry F. Atlas of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York 1860. Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire,
Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Walker, George H. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire
County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895.