Elm Street 211.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-37 Easthampton NTH.466 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 211 Elm Street Historic Name: George
P. Dickinson House Uses: Present: Apartments Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1879-1880 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, 9/2/1879, 11/4/1879 Style/Form: Queen Anne/Panel
Brick Architect/Builder: Eugene C. Gardner of Springfield Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone, faux brick Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary
Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Porch partially filled-in post-1975. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.427 acres Setting: Set on a broad lot, this house
is in a neighborhood of largely 19th c. houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [211 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.466 ___ 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 Dickinson House is Queen Anne style house, which, in brick, is often called Panel Brick style.
The house has a hipped roof with a transverse gable bay on the south and one on the east. The brick exterior of the house is made more picturesque by the use of corbelling bricks and
tarred bricks at watertable, belt course and stringcourse between stories. The gable fields of the transverse gables have applied wood panels in Stick Style fashion with a frieze of
picket fence ornament. A porch runs across the north façade and picks up again on the west. It rests on Doric columns that are connected by a railing with square balusters. One third
of the north façade porch has been enclosed with faux brick. Windows in the house are a mixture of 1/1 and Queen Anne multiple pane windows along with a row of single pane casement windows
in the north gable end. The eaves on this façade are unboxed and have a row of scrolled brackets. Window lintels are rough-faced brownstone with dressed borders. The brick chimney has
been ornamented with corbelled and tarred bricks 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 1975: “A native of Ashfield, Eugene C. Gardner (1836-1915) began to practice architecture in
Florence at age 22. Possibly instructed by W.F. Pratt, Gardner settled in Springfield following the Civil War and maintained a practice there until 1911. In 1889, he formed a partnership
with son George C. Gardner and George Pyne. Although Gardner designed a number of commercial buildings in Northampton and Florence prior to his removal to Springfield, this residence
is one of two remaining buildings attributable to the architect. (The other, the King Street Armory, was designed by the partnership in 1900.) An early work in Springfield by Gardner,
Trinity Church (1870), is briefly discussed in Henry Russell Hitchcock’s volume The Architecture of H. H. Richardson and His Times.” 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.