Paradise Road 65.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-262 Easthampton NTH.566 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 65 Paradise Road Historic Name: William
H. Clapp House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1887 Source: Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Shingle Style Bungalow
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: fieldstone Wall/Trim: wood shingles, vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with
dates): Vinyl applied to gable ends, ca. 1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.403 acres Setting: This house occupies a raised lot and faces east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [65 PARADISE ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.566 _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 the second of two Shingle Style houses on Paradise Road, although the style is rare in
Northampton. Its form is distinctly different than the other version of the style at #38. The Clapp House is two-and-a-half stories in height under a side gable roof that extends on
the east façade to create a deep porch in bungalow fashion. Centered on the east roof is a large angled dormer under a pedimented roof. The house is shingle sided on first and second
stories and the shingles wrap the house elements without interruption of cornerboards or posts. The porch, for instance, rests on large shingled piers that flare at the roofline. Shingles
continue on each elevation while first and second stories are separated by a narrow jetty. A three-story angled bay window is also “wrapped” in shingles on the south elevation. In the
gable ends of the house a jetty below a narrow shingled pent roof separates second and attic stories. This area has been vinyl sided unfortunately, as has the front dormer’s pediment.
Sash in the house’s windows is original 6/2. 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: “In 1866, a subdivision plan for ‘Paradise Road lots’ was filed by J.C. Ward. The area supposedly
received its name from Jenny Lind, the ‘Swedish Nightingale,’ who spent her honeymoon at the Round Hill Hotel in the early 1850’s. She was so entranced by the vistas from Round Hill
that she gave Northampton the nickname ‘Paradise of America.’ Development did not proceed very quickly on Paradise Road though, with three houses shown on the 1873 atlas and five houses
on the 1884 atlas. However, during the late 1880’s, this entire area on the south side of Elm Street became opened up for development and within the next 25 years substantially reached
its present state. This house was built in 1887 for William H. Clapp at a cost of $3200. Mr. Clapp was the clerk of courts at the County Court House.” 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] [65 PARADISE ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.566 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.