Elm Street, Smith College Campus 4.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-295 Easthampton NTH.719 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: Elm Street, Smith College Campus Historic
Name: Wesley House Uses: Present: Smith College dormitory Original: Parsonage for Methodist Church Date of Construction: 1891 Source: Smith College archives Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Wings added, ca. 1930 and 2004. Condition:
good Moved: no | | yes | x | Date 2004 Acreage: 0.292 acres Setting: This building has been oriented towards the south and to the inner campus.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [ELM STREET, SMITH CAMPUS] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.719 ___ 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. Wesley House is a south-facing, two-and-a-half story Queen Anne style building with a front-gable
roof and a wing on its west elevation. This building contributes to the numerous originally-residential buildings that now serve institutional purposes on the Smith College campus, giving
it a more intimate scale. It has a cross gable on its east elevation whose eaves make hipped returns. The main block of the house is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep
and it has a two-story stacked porch that crosses its south elevation. The porch has a metal covered shed roof that rests on posts with solid, quarter-circle brackets at the eaves. The
house has clapboards on its first story and shingles on the second and attic stories. The shingles have mouse-tooth edges where they meet stringcourses. The one-and-a-half story wing
has a side-gable roof with a full width shed roof dormer three bays wide below a smaller dormer. Attached to the wing on its west elevation is a recent addition, a glassed entry to the
building. There is a secondary open porch on the west elevation of the wing 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 of 1977: “Opened by the College in 1898, Wesley House was
named for the founder of the Methodist faith, in deference to the building’s previous use as a parsonage for the adjacent Christ United Methodist Church. This house was acquired, along
with neighboring Haven House, by the College in 1898. The two buildings were then enlarged and converted into student dwelling houses.” This building was moved to its present location
to make way for the Student Center, ca. 2004. 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