Elm Street 50.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 31D-002 Easthampton NTH.724 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 50 Elm Street Historic
Name: Clarke House Uses: Present: Smith College Residence Hall Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1878 or c. 1890 Source: Smith College Archives/general style Style/Form:
Queen Anne Architect/Builder: attributed to Peabody & Stearns Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major
Alterations (with dates): Wing added on west, ca. 1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: over one acre Setting: Set close to the street behind a cast and wrought
iron fence on the Smith College campus.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [50 ELM STREET ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.724 ___ 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 style house with a front-gable roof. It has a slate
roof, clapboard and shingle exterior and a transverse gable bay on the east, and a wing on the west. The main block of the house is three bays wide. It has a side hall entry with an
architrave surround and ¾ length sidelights. It has a paneled door. Sash in the house is 6/2. The front gable projects with two shingled jetties on brackets with paired consoles on the
lower jetty corners. A Palladian window is in the gable field with Queen Anne scroll cut sill ornament. The façade has a wrap around hipped roof porch on turned posts with a twisted
rope surface. Spindle railings and a porch apron with jigsaw cut pattern are Queen Anne in style. On the east side of the roof are hipped dormers and two tall chimneys. On the west is
a two-and-a-half story wing. The east transverse gable has two shingled jetties as well. 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 1976: “College archives indicate that the structure was
designed by Peabody & Stearns for a Charles Clarke, whose summer home it was. There is, however, no documentation concerning the architect. A second possibility is that Smith College,
which acquired the property from the Clarke family in 1889, had the residence built on the land at this time. Queen Anne style dwellings of this size and detail were erected in Northampton
in the 1890’s. If the house is in fact the work of Peabody & Stearns in the late 1870’s, it represents an extremely advanced design.” 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.