Elm Street 225.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-15 Easthampton NTH.457 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 225 Elm Street Historic Name: Southwick
House Uses: Present: Apartments Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1906-1915 Source: Registry of Deeds; 1915 Map Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick, granite, shingles, wood, stucco Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.574 acres Setting: This house sits on a corner lot in a section of Northampton built up on late 19th and early 20th century houses. Gate posts mark entry
to the drive.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [225 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.457 _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 a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne house that is a version of the style known as “Half-timbered”
and shares several features with the Tudor Revival. It consists of a hipped roof center section with cross-gables on each elevation. Two cross-gables are located on the south façade
with half-timbering in their gables. Set between the two is a front-gabled dormer. All three gables have barge board trim. The house is a yellow brick on the first story with granite
trim as a beltcourse and alternating granite blocks and brick in the splayed window lintels. The second story is shingle-sided. The center entry is a wide opening with an elliptical
fanlight over a door that is flanked by leaded glass sidelights. A one-story porch crosses the north façade. It rests on paired posts on brick pedestals and has shallow curved braces
at its eaves. There is a balustrade on the porch roof in front of a second story pavilion that has a pair of 12/1 full length windows flanking a center glass door. The second story windows
are 12/1 sash. The house has a Queen Anne carriage barn. 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 1976: “This Tudor Revival style residence was erected at the corner of Elm and Franklin
Streets in the the first decade of the twentieth century. The house was built for Elbridge Southwick, who purchased the homestead of Henry Edwards in 1906 and rebuilt on the lot between
that time and 1915.” 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. Registry of Deeds, Hampshire County, 607.65