Paradise Road 22.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):
April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31A-256 Easthampton NTH.561 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 20-22 Paradise Road Historic Name:
Misses Allen House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1867-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Gothic Revival/Italianate
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Attached garage Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.248 acres Setting: This house faces west overlooking the Smith College Quadrangle. On its east is Paradise Pond.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [22 PARADISE ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.561 _x__ 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 house that has both Gothic Revival and Italianate style features.
It has a side-gable roof with an Italianate centered cross-gable on the west façade. In the cross-gable field is a pointed arch window that is a Gothic Revival architectural detail.
Pointed arch windows are also found in the gable fields of the north and south elevations. The main block of the house is three bays wide and has a porch on posts sheltering its center
entry. The porch has a roof balustrade and at the second story a door gives access to the porch. The entry surround has a projecting Italianate cornice that is repeated on the window
surrounds of the first story. There is an angled bay window on the south elevation of the main block and on the north is a porch on posts. Extending from the east elevation are two,
two-story ells, the second of which has a side porch on its south elevation followed by an attached garage. 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: “Paradise Road was opened in the late
1860’s by J.C. Ward. Development was slow and here were only three houses built by 1873. This was one of the houses and was owned by ‘Misses Allen.’ They do not seem to have lived here
though until the early 1890’s.” 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 244-P. 409
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [22 PARADISE ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.561 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a potential historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side
streets laid out on the south side of Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district
is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of
the development of Northampton from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for
attendance at Smith College, and the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a
shift from gentlemen’s estates to accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers.
According to criterion C this district would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial
Revival styles are all well-represented within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time.