Paradise Road 61.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-261 Easthampton NTH.565 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 61 Paradise Road Historic Name: Rev.
Cyrus Pickett House Uses: Present: Seven-unit residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: High Victorian Gothis Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no |
x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.409 acres Setting: This house occupies a raised corner lot and faces east towards Paradise Pond.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [61 PARADISE ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.565 __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 well-preserved High Victorian Gothic house that is two-and-a-half stories in height under
a steeply-pitched, side-gable roof with wide eaves, no returns and a broad frieze. Centered on the three bay east façade is a projecting pavilion. The entry is in the pavilion and consists
of double leaf doors below a large transom light. Across the east façade is a full-width porch porch on posts with a jigsaw cut railing and Eastlake brackets at the eaves. The porch
apron is made up of a broad framework within which are jigsaw cut panels. Adding to the interior volume is an angled bay window on the north elevation of the house and a two-story west
ell. Windows in the house on the first story have straight brownstone lintels but on the second floor and attic levels are segmentally arched. 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 had been laid out in the late 1860’s as the first development in the area west of Elm Street, bound by the Mill River. However, there was not much construction here
until the late 1880’s, when several other streets were laid out through the old Elm Street homesteads. This large brick house first appears on the 1895 atlas as the property of the Rev.
Cyrus Pickett. Joseph Pickett, one of the co-founders of the Northampton Commercial College, and his son John C. Pickett are also listed here, as boarders.” 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [61 PARADISE ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.565 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.