97 Crescent Street (2)
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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-240 Easthampton NTH.340
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 97 Crescent Street
Historic Name: William Reilley House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1895-1915
Source: Atlas and Directory
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: not visible
Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.278 acre
Setting: This is a west-facing house on a
residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [99 CRESCENT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.340
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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 representative house of the Colonial Revival style. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a pyramidal hipped roof.
As was common during the early years of the 20th century, the house is only two bays wide and two bays deep, but its
proportions are very large so that it is generous in its space. It has a side hall entry with a trabeated surround and sidelights
adjacent to a three-part composition window at the first story, and at the second story of the west façade it has a three-part
composition window adjacent to an angled bay window that fits beneath the eaves. The roof of the house has wide eaves that
are supported on brackets.
Centered on the roof on each elevation is a hipped roof dormer. A full-width porch crosses the west façade and wraps around
to the south elevation, and is supported on paired, half-length, fluted posts above shingled piers. There are respondent pilasters
on the façade. Between the piers is a railing with square balusters. There is a two-story ell on the east.
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 house first appears on the 1915 atlas, and is owned and occupied by William Reilley, a lawyer.
Crescent Street had been opened in 1886 along the middle slopes of Round Hill and quickly became one of the most
‘aristocratic’ streets in the city.”
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.
Registry of Deeds: Bk. 472-P. 143