Elm Street 333.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 24C-44 Easthampton NTH.281 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 333 Elm Street Historic Name: J. H.
Lyman Residence Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1866-1868 Source: Registry of Deeds, 222.154, 254.196 Style/Form: Italianate/Eclectic
Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt, architect, Northampton, attr. Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: flushboard Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major
Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.25 acres acres Setting: House is set back from the street on a large lot that is raised. Gate posts
mark the driveway.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [333 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.281 ___ 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 one of two Italianate style houses with Gothic Revival features in this section of Elm
Street, the second being at 319 Elm Street, though the two take quite different form. This is a two-and-a-half story house with a gambrel roof and an Italianate centered cross-gable.
The roof has Gothic Revival jerkin heads on the east and west ends. Roof eaves are wide and unboxed with exposed rafters. The house is sided in flushboard and corner quoins, the better
to resemble the stonework of an Italian palazzo. At the same time, Gothic bargeboards ornament the front gable and windows have hood lintels, footed sills, and paired sash. Extending
across the center bay of the north façade is a hipped roof porch on posts with a small balustrade in front of paired, full-length windows at the second story level. This balustrade feature
is found in the same location at the house at 319 Elm Street. On the east elevation is a one-story, three-sided bay window and in the gable ends of the house are round arched windows.
There is a two-story ell on the north elevation. This house comes very close to A. J. Downing’s Design XVI in The Architecture of Country Houses. 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: “One of two fine mansions owned and built on Elm Street by J. H. Lyman, this villa was built between 1864 and 1868 when Lyman sold the property to William Bone for $10,000. The
Gazette in late 1865 noted that a fine residence would be erected ‘on the lot above Mr. Clements, purchased by J. H. Lyman,’ the following year. 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, 374.83, 262.128, 254.196, 256.122, 222.154