Elm Street 231.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-13 Easthampton NTH.455 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 231 Elm Street Historic Name: James
D. Atkins House Uses: Present: Apartments Original: Single-family House Date of Construction: 1890-1895 Source: Deeds & Town Maps Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates): Vinyl siding added and windows replaced, ca. 1990; porch
supports replaced ca. 1960. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.358 acres acres Setting: This house is in a row of similarly dated Queen Anne style houses in Northampton’s
central residential area.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [231 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.455 ___ 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 Queen Anne style house has lost much of its character due to the addition of vinyl siding
and the replacement of important porch elements with unrelated wrought iron railings and posts. It has, however, retained much of the volume that was sought in the style for middle class
living. It is two stories in height and has a side-gable roof that is slate covered. Two cross gable bays project from the south façade under jerkin-head roofs. Between them a front-gabled
pavilion rises above a two-story porch on wrought iron rails and posts on the first floor and turned posts at the second floor. The large house is only three-bays wide and four bays
deep but its proportions are large. It has tall thin windows of 1/1 sash. 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 1977: “Property on Elm Street owned by E. W. Sanderson saw plotted in 1874,
Sanderson Avenue opened from Franklin Avenue, and two lots established on Elm Street. Lot #1 was purchased by William F. Pratt, the architect, who built a house for himself at 229 Elm.
Lot #2 was purchased by J. D. Atkins in 1890. Before 1895, when the house appears on the Map of Northampton, number 241 Elm, Atkins built his residence which continued in the Atkins
family until 1920. For two decades thereafter it was owned by Francis E. O’Brien. Division into apartments, it may be supposed, was made between 1943 and 1946. 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: 310/530 1874, 394/403 1885, 437/35 1890, 764/37 1920, 974/277 1943, 1004/80 1946, 1571/368 1970, 1832/19
1975