Elm Street 319.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-3 Easthampton NTH.448 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 319 Elm Street Historic Name: A.H. Lyman
House Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1870 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, 5/31/1870 Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder:
William F. Pratt, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Vinyl siding
added, ca. 1990 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.338 acres Setting: The house is set back from the street and screened from the street by shrubbery.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [319 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.448 ___ 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. Despite the fact that this house has been vinyl-sided and its stylistic character compromised,
its architect-designed, Gothic Revival form remains in its unique plan. The main block of the house is one-and-a-half stories under a steeply-pitched side-gable roof. It is three bays
wide and centered on its street façade is a front-gabled pavilion of one-and-a-half stories. A long north ell has two, steeply-pitched, cross-gabled bays on its east and west elevations
for a complex plan. Entry to the main block is in the center pavilion and is beneath a hood on consoles with pendants with a small balustrade above the hood ornamenting a round-arched,
second story window. In the main block first story windows have 2/2 sash and above them are through-cornice, Gothic dormers with pointed windows of 2/2 sash. Attached to the east elevation
of the main block is a polygonal, single-story bay window with five arched windows of diamond pane sash. This polygonal bay has a balustrade of cross-buck pattern. Second story windows
are arched. The cross-gables extending from the ell have arched windows, and between them are through-cornice dormers with pointed 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 1975:
“This cottage was designed in 1870 by W. F. Pratt and built for A. H. Lyman on upper Elm Street, ‘between the Fowle and Clement residences.’ Lyman purchased lot #2 from H. G. Maynard
for $1000 in 1869 and sold the parcel ‘together with the dwellinghouse thereon standing’ to S. C. Parsons in 1871. (Lyman is referred to as A. W. Lyman at Registry of Deeds.” 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.