Elm Street 84.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 31B-250 Easthampton NTH.706 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 84 Elm Street Historic Name: Elizabeth
Drew House Uses: Present: Smith College Career Development Office Original: single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1750 Source: Deeds Style/Form: Georgian Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: brick, clapboard Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Ell added, dormers added ca. 2000; access ramp
added ca. 2005. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.25 acres Setting: This building is set on the Smith College campus facing north on to Elm Street in a neighborhood
of large institutional buildings and smaller residential buildings converted to institutional use.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [84 ELM STREET ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.706 ___ 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 Northampton’s fine Georgian style residences. It is a brick building, two-and-a-half
stories in height under a side-gable roof. The brick was laid with slightly projecting beltcourse and gable end frames and there are three interior chimneys in the main block of the
house. The eaves in the gable ends, typical of many Georgian houses, are clipped. There is a row of dentils beneath the front eaves. The house is five bays wide and three bays deep and
on its south elevation is a two-and-a-half story clapboard-sided ell. The ell has a corner porch on turned posts with brackets at its eaves on the east elevation. Three dormers have
been added to the north side of the roof. Sash is 6/6 in windows that have architrave surrounds. The main entry has a simple surround unlike most Georgian houses, suggesting that it
has lost its original surround. 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 1977: “The Smith College Archives give firmly documented facts concerning this house, but from references it
would seem to have been built in the late 18th century by a William Lyman and occupied by that family for some years. In the 1850’s it was the ‘parsonage’ (or manse) for Dr. Gordon Hall,
a local pastor, and in the 1880’s was used as a residence hall by Smith College and called Tucker House because of the woman who ran it. Later it became a public inn, used largely by
visitors to the college; and in still later years and up to the 1960’s was called the Brass Knocker and managed by Miss Edith Parker. In 1967 it was purchased by Smith College as a residence
for graduate students and named the Elizabeth Drew House in honor of Miss Drew, a visiting lecturer at Smith for over twenty years, until her retirement and death.” 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. Register of Deeds, Books: 57/158 1827; 80/574 1837; 104/62 1844; 123/221 1848; 170/313 1857; 186/19 1857;
393/33 1885; 477/3 1895; 1418/343 1960