Elm Street 584.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 23D-112 Easthampton NTH.257 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 584 Elm Street Historic Name: Skinner-Warner
House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: c. 1850 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: board and batten and vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Ell added ca. 1900 Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.412 acres Setting: House occupies a wedge-shaped lot that is screened from the street with vegetation.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [584 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.257 ___ 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 one-and-a-half story, Gothic Revival style house with a front-gable roof that follows
the principles of A. J. Downing in his book, The Architecture of Country Houses first published in 1850. Its board and batten siding is visible on the first story, but vinyl siding has
been added to the second story, thereby obscuring much of its stylistic character. The steeply pitched roof has barge boards at its eaves on the front gable. Dormers on east and west
have pairs of pointed Gothic windows and barge boards at their eaves. On the east the through-cornice dormer rests on a polygonal bay of arched windows. On the south side of the house
is a one-and-a-half story ell with a cross gable followed by a one-story ell. The cross gable is two bays wide and has barge boards and paired second story windows. 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 1980: “In 1850, William Skinner bought a little more than a half acre of land at the intersection of the ‘road from Paper Mill to Bensonville and the road from the courthouse
to Bensonville’ for $6. This is the current junction of Federal, Elm, and Nontuck Streets. The land was across Elm St. from the small shop that Enoch Jewett had established on Broughton
Meadow Brook c. 1830. Mr. Jewett had built a dam across the brook, to power his shop. In 1842, three members of the Utopian community, Northampton Association of Education and Industry,
withdrew from the community and purchased the Jewett property and water privilege. A silk mill was erected on the site. Mr. Skinner established his homestead on the lot he had purchased,
and was probably connected with the mill across the street. In 1859, he sold his property and moved to Williamsburg, where he had established a silk mill a few years earlier. A small
community, called Skinnerville, grew up around the mill. The Mill River flood of 1874 destroyed the mill and village, and Mr. Skinner moved his business to Holyoke, where it expanded
into one of the largest of its kind. Mr. Skinner’s Holyoke house, Wistariahurst, is currently maintained as a museum.” 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, 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: Bk 483-P 58, 188-270, 1165-122 & 123, 136-61 and 147