Elm Street 259.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): February, 2010 Assessor’s
Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31A-011-001 Easthampton NTH.2451 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 259 Elm Street Historic Name: Autumn Inn Uses: Present:
hotel/motel Original: hotel/motel Date of Construction: 1967-68 Source: Assessors records, street directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation:
concrete Wall/Trim: brick Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Rooms added in 1967 and 1969. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes
| | Date Acreage: 0.802 acres Setting: This hotel/motel is on Northampton’s main thoroughfare and was built in alignment with its predecessors on the street. There is a circular drive
through the property.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [259 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2451 ___ 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. The Autumn Inn is a combination hotel and motel. It is
Colonial Revival in style and composed of a three-and-a-half story brick main building with a one-and-a-half story ell on the north and a brick dependency of two stories on the east
connected to the main building by a porte-cochere. All three sections of the building have Colonial Revival style gambrel roofs. The main block has a center chimney on its asphalt shingle
roof and is five bays wide and three bays deep. The use of traditional residential fenestration applied to a three-and-a-half story building is an effort to keep the building in scale
with its residential context. Neighboring houses are generally two-and-a-half stories in height, but there are several towers that increase their overall scale appearance. Windows on
the first floor of the main block have 6/6 applied muntin sash and second floor windows that are smaller and placed close to the eaves also have 6/6 sash. The center entry to the main
block aims to reflect the Connecticut River valley doors of the 18th century. The entry has six-panel, double-leaf doors beneath an eight-light transom. The entry surround is trabeated
with fluted pilasters supporting an entablature with a semi-circular pediment. A porte-cochere extends from the north east corner of the main block about 20 feet to connect to a one-and-a-half
story brick building two bays wide and two bays deep. On the north elevation of the main building is a one-and-a-half story ell that acts as a motel. It is a two-pile ell with its roof
extending on both east and west sides to create a full-length porch on square posts. Each unit of the motel has a door and window for a 15-bay length on each elevation. Centered on the
ell roof is a shed roof dormer containing 6 windows and at each side of the center dormer are four, front-gabled dormers. This pattern is found on both east and west elevations. A wrought
iron fence runs across the north side of the lot. 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 Autumn Inn was constructed in 1967-1968. A century earlier the land in Elm Street on which it is located
belonged to J. Clark, there being over 80 Clarks in Northampton at the time, farming, banking, teamstering. A house at 257 Elm Street owned by Ellis B. Currier in 1920 was torn down
in order to construct this hotel. It has served Smith College guests as well as others visiting the city since its construction. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES 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. Northampton
Street Directories, 1950-1960.