South Street 215.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): April 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38B-75 Easthampton NTH. 1004 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 215 South Street Historic
Name: Lathrop Home for Aged and Infirmed Women Uses: Present: Institutional Original: Institutional Date of Construction: 1920-1921 Source: Building Permit Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Brick Roof: Slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good Moved: no | x
| yes | | Date Acreage: 1.6 acres Setting: Building sits in a residential neighborhood of former single family homes that have been converted to buildings with two or more residential
units.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [215 SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1004 __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 nursing home that was built in the Colonial Revival style with a
slate gable roof that has a molded cornice with modillions. The plan of the building is a modified “V” with two story southern wing that was added to the building in 1931. The building’s
exterior is comprised of brick façade and has brick quoining running vertically across the façade to form bays. At the center of the “V” is a one story curved porch with Tuscan columns
and flat roof with full entablature at the eaves. Windows have brownstone sills and flat segmental brick lintels with projecting brick keystones. Most of the windows are three over one
sash vinyl replacements although there are some six over one sash windows. Above the center entrance is a Colonial Revival style tri-part window. The slate gable roof has a series of
shed roof dormers with paired pilaster windows. At the end of the north wing is a shallow two-story wing with flat roof that functions as a sun room on both floors. The sun room wing
has ribbon and tri-part windows. There is a brick chimney on the northern wing and the foundation of the building is comprised by brick. 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:
“The ‘Lathrop Home Home for the Aged and Infirm Women in Northampton’ had its start in the ‘Home for the Sick,’ which was established in 1884. This was the first private charitable organization
in Northampton and was the idea of Mrs. Clara Lathrop. A house on the corner of South and Olive Streets was rented for $250 a year. The house was furnished by the area churches. With
the opening of the Dickinson Hospital in 1886, the problem of adequately caring for sick and injured people was settled, and the ‘Home for the Sick’ was changed to minister to a different
need, women too aged or infirm to make a home for themselves. In 1887, the house was purchased and the institution was incorporated as the ‘Home for Aged and Invalid Women in Northampton.’
After Mrs. Lathrop’s death in 1908 the name of the Home was changed to the ‘Lathrop Home for Aged and Invalid Women in Northampton.’ In 1920, Mrs. Frank Look purchased the Charles Clark
homestead on South Street for a new building for the ‘Lathrop Home.’ This would be a memorial to her mother, Mrs. Sarah M. Burr. The building was completed in 1921 and first occupied
on Sept. 22, 1921. Mrs. Look’s gift included the furnishing of the kitchen, dining room, hall, parlor, one bedroom and the four sunrooms. Thirty-one of the bedrooms were furnished by
donors.” 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.