Elm Street 222.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-72 Easthampton NTH.480 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 222 Elm Street Historic Name: Hammond
House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1891 Source: The Northampton Book, p 158 Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: R.F.
Putnam and son Karl Scott Putnam Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: brick, shingles, brownstone Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with
dates): Converted to multi-family use, ca. 1990 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.603 acres Setting: House occupies a large corner lot in an area of Northampton
that was divided and developed in the later 19th century.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [222 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.480 ___ 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 Hammond House is a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne style house in the variation described by
Virginia and Lee McAlester in their work on American architecture as “Free Classic” for the use of classically-derived columns and piers and molding details. The house is composed of
a hipped roof center section from which cross-gables on north and east project and a corner tower rises on the northeast. The house is brick on the first story and shingled above, and
the projecting north cross-gable has a jetty supported on consoles between second and third stories, and a recessed Palladian window in the third story gable field. In the angle between
the main block of the house and the north cross-gable is a porch that rests on fluted, ½-length Ionic columns and fluted piers. The porch has a pediment over the entry stairs and in
the gable field of the pediment is a floral relief common to the Free Classic style. Porch pedestals are brick and there is a railing of square balusters. A feature of the house that
indicates the architects were aware of H. H. Richardson’s Shingle Style is the use of a rounded corner wrapped with shingles that flow over it and the eastern rounded cross gabled bay.
Bands of four casement windows appear on both first and second stories and on the first story the windows as is characteristic of both the Queen Anne Free Classic and Shingle Styles.
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 1970: “R.F. Putnam (1841-1911) was an Amherst Academy schoolmate of John C. Hammond (born in Leverett). He studied with architect Fuller of Worcester;
worked in Leverett and Amherst, where he built Colonial-style houses. There was a Putnam and Bayley office in Northampton and later, this became a partnership with his son Karl Putnam.
The Hammond House was begun in 1891 by the firm. Calvin Coolidge read law in the elder “Judge” Hammond’s law office. As a young man, he stayed in this house when the Hammond family was
away during the summers in Goshen. This home remained in the Hammond family for many years. Mrs. Ethel Hammond Cornell, daughter of the builder, still resides in the house.” 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.