Round Hill Road 87.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 24D-319 Easthampton NTH.362 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 87 Round Hill Road Historic Name:
Clarence R. Gardiner House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Sash replaced, ca. 2005.
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.257 acres Setting: This house is set back from the street behind a wood picket fence.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [87 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.362 _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. The Gardiner House is a one-of-a-kind design whose overall characteristics are Queen Anne but whose
details are uncommon. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a truncated, front-gabled roof whose eaves make a full return to form a pent roof. A rope molding ornaments the clipped
eaves. This roof form alone is unusual. The plane of the clapboard-sided second story is set back from the plane of the first story by several feet, enough to support a two-story bay
window. The house is three bays wide and its center entry is a double leaf door with a pedimented, projecting porch on turned Queen Anne posts. The porch or portico has a shingled gable-on-hip
roof. It is further ornamented with a spindled frieze. At each side of the porch are paired windows with shed-roofed lintels that are shingled. The lintels are in very low relief. On
the north elevation of the house is a two-story porch with novelty siding. It is open and latticed on the first story and glassed in as a sleeping porch on the second story. It would
date from the 1920s or thereabouts. 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: “Round Hill, north of the Clark School, was first opened for residential development in the early 1870’s.
This project proved a failure and the property was bought by John B. O’Donnell in the mid 1880’s. He felt that ‘the hill was by nature the handsomest and most desirable building spot
in America,’ and only sold substantial lots for residences. By the turn of the century, this had become one of the most exclusive residential areas of the city, a position it has maintained
to this day.” 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] [87 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.362 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 Round Hill Historic District. This potential historic district is significant according to
criteria A and C and would have local significance. The residential streets that cross Round Hill are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of development in Northampton
from the early 19th century (1807) through the 1950s. Residential development began on Round Hill with the establishment of gentleman’s estates but grew with schools and a resort hotel
until the 1890s when residential development increased significantly. From the 1890s through the 1950s (1959 McAlister Infirmary) Round Hill became home to Northampton’s wealthy and
to the Clarke School for the Deaf. Architecturally this area of Northampton is significant for the range of residential architectural styles including the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival,
and for its institutional buildings in the French Second Empire, through High Victorian Gothic and Colonial Revival styles ending with the American International style. The potential
district has integrity of workmanship, design, feeling, association, and materials.