Massasoit Street 19-21.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-86 Easthampton NTH.294 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 19-21 Massasoit Street Historic Name:
Calvin Coolidge House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Two-family residence Date of Construction: 1900-1901 Source: NRHP nomination form Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
J.W. O’Brien, builder Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no |
x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.16 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house on an established, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [19-21MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.294 ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. This property is on the National Register. 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. The Calvin Coolidge two-family house is a well-designed version
of the Colonial Revival style. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a truncated hipped roof on which there are front-gabled dormers on the three visible elevations. Cross-hipped
bays project from the north and south and in the angle made by the main block and the cross bays are porches at each side of the house that project on the west beyond the plane of the
façade. The porches are the only features that are not mirror-images of each other. They have low, hipped roofs that are supported on slender Doric columns, but the north porch extends
further and terminates in a pediment on its roof. The main block of the house on the west façade is two bays wide – one bay for each unit. At the first story the fenestration is made
up of two angled bay windows below windows at the second story that have 6/1 sash. On north and south elevations, the cross-bays at the first story level have a paired window adjacent
to an oriel window that contains a band of three windows. There is a two-and-a-half story ell on the east elevation of the house. The north side of the ell has an open side porch and
the south side of the ell has a glassed-in side porch – a later alteration. 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: “Calvin Coolidge occupied this dwelling on Massasoit Street from
1906 to 1930, at which time he moved to ‘The Beeches’ on the more secluded Hampton Terrace. During the period of his residency, Coolidge served as City Councilor and Mayor in Northampton,
state senator and governor, vice-president and president of the United States. Coolidge succeeded Warren Harding to the Presidency on August 2, 1923, and was elected in his own right
in 1924. In 1929, Coolidge returned to Northampton to resume his legal career until his death in 1933.” 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.