151 Crescent Street
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FORM B − BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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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-265 Easthampton NTH.353
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 151 Crescent Street
Historic Name: Daniel Lynch House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1895-1900
Source: Atlas and Directories
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Daniel Lynch, mason
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.298 acre
Setting: This is a south-facing house on a curving,
residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [151 CRESCENT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
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NTH.353
_x__ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
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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 Colonial Revival style house under a side-gable roof on which is centered a front-gabled dormer.
The house is three bays wide and two bays deep and has an end wall chimney on the south that laces through the roof eaves,
and an interior chimney. Centered on the east façade is a two-story, stacked, wood porch that rests on triple clustered posts at
its outer corners and respondent pilasters at the building façade wall. At the first story level the porch posts rest on brick piers.
Railings have square balusters. The center entry has a door whose upper half is glass and lower half is paneled and that is
flanked by sidelights. At the second story level a second glass and panel door opens on to the upper deck of the porch. Above
it at the segmentally arched dormer window is Colonial Revival style festooning in relief in the window arch. Windows in the
house have brownstone sills and lintels and replacement 1/1 sash. Brownstone also creates a watertable encircling the building.
As a mason’s house, the Lynch House between first and second stories at its corners has a corbelled brick set-back, a feature
that is highly unusual and perhaps unique in Northampton.
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: “This large brick house was built in the latter part of the 1890s by Daniel Lynch, a mason, for his own
residence.”
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 FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [151 CRESCENT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.353
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 Lynch House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary
corridor, Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential
historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense
with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton
for several hundred years to the present.
Architecturally it is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses,
the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s
most well-known designers. The Lynch House is a fine example of the Colonial Revival style and is exceptionally
well-preserved. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.