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16 Butler Place Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month / year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-209 Easthampton NTH.2096 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 16 Butler Place Historic Name: John F. and Agnes Lambie House Uses: Present: two-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1894 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, Dec. 29. 1894 Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Addition on northwest corner ca. 1970 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.333 acres Setting: Set on one of the largest lots on Butler Place, this house faces south and it lot is bordered by mature trees on the north. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [16 BUTLER PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2096 _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 one of the best-maintained houses on Butler Place and is a particularly fine example of the Colonial Revival style. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a pyramidal hipped roof – a house form that was very popular in western Massachusetts urban areas at the turn-of-the-century. The main block of the house has a transverse hipped bay on the west and an ell on the rear. There is a one-story addition on the northwest corner of the house. The house is three bays wide with a stair window adjacent to a very simple entry surround followed by a three-sided bay that rises to a polygonal roof. The clapboard-sided first floor of the house has a wrap-around porch with a curved southeast corner. Its roof rests on stout, half-length columns that rest, in turn, on paneled pedestals. The porch railings are solid and clapboard sided. There is a pedimented entry to the porch whose tympanum is ornamented with festooning. The porch is stacked and has a small second story section one-bay wide. It is partially enclosed on three sides by shingled walls with large screened openings. A row of dentils at the porch eaves and the main house eaves underscore the Colonial Revival style of the house, but its wide eaves overhang, slightly flared suggests the more modern Prairie style. There are a hipped dormers centered on each elevation of the asphalt-shingled roof. 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 the 1980 form, “Butler Place was opened in 1892 through the old Butler estate on Hawley Street. By 1895 seven of the present ten houses had been built and the Gazette mentioned “several examples of art in architecture” on the street. This house was built during 1894 for John Lambie at an approximate cost of $4000. Mr. Lambie was co-owner of a Main Street dry good and millinery concern. “ John and Agnes Lambie were Scottish and English, respectively, and lived here in 1900 without children. By 1910 a 13-year old niece Agnes Naylor had come to live with them. Within six years the family had altered considerably and John had a new wife, Sarah, and they were raising a grandson who was 9 ½ and had been born in Scotland. John was no longer working in a dry goods store but was now a laborer in a lumber yard. The couple was no longer in Northampton in 1930. The house is not listed in the 1917 street directory but by 1937 it was occupied by Elizabeth and Lewis F. Rogers. Lewis was manager at a local restaurant, a beef 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. U.S. Federal Censuses, 1900-1930. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [16 BUTLER PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2096 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. The Lambie House would contribute to a potential Pomeroy Terrace historic district that developed south and east of the Bridge Street Cemetery from the second third of the 19th century as Northampton’s finest residential district. Original residents here were merchants, retired farmers, lawyers, and other professions. As the century progressed the adjacent streets were laid out for the growing middle class with railroad personnel joining clerks, teachers, and others. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the fine examples of the 19th century architectural styles from the Greek and Gothic Revivals, Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. The district includes significant examples of the work of Northampton architect William Fenno Pratt. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.