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49 Dryads Green 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: PVPC Date (month / year): January, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31A-257-001 Easthampton NTH.572 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 49 Dryads Green Historic Name: Sidney Packard House Uses: Present: two-family residence Original: one-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1905 Source: Street Directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Attached garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.185 acres Setting: This house is located on a short, tree-lined street with a wooded area to its south that borders the Mill River. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [49 DRYADS GREEN] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.572 ___ 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 Colonial Revival style house is one of about six in that style in the immediate neighborhood of Dryads Green. It occupies a corner lot on the two sections of road that are both named Dryads Green. It is decoratively a rather modest version of the style but has prominence on its site due to its scale and elevation on its lot. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a hipped roof that is slate-covered. It sits on high brick foundations, is clapboard-sided, and has an attached, two-bay, brick garage on its south elevation. The house is three bays wide and four bays deep and its windows are paired in each bay with replacement vinyl sash configured with three vertical lights over one light. The paired windows are spanned with a capped lintel. There is a stacked porch across the north façade of the house that is supported by Colonial Revival style Doric columns. At its second story level a door in the center bay opens on to a railed balcony. There is a hipped roof dormer on the north side of the roof with two wood 3/1 light sash in it. 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. In the 1880s the land on which Dryads Green now lies was still part of several large residential properties that faced Elm Street and stretched south to the Mill River. Beginning in 1890 the land was opened up first with Kensington Avenue that was put in by Charles Crouch and then between 1890 and 1895 when Dryads Green was laid out by J. C. Hammond and John Sullivan developers and brothers-in-law. Development of these two streets reflected Northampton’s growing middle class population, which made development profitable, as the City was, between 1900 and 1915, adding over 400 residents a year. Dryads Green connected to Paradise Road on the east by making two turns to the north and east. The street by 1919 had been fairly well developed and was occupied by a diverse group of residents including dentists, doctors, teachers, and businessmen. The first occupant listed in the street directories at this address was William Hathaway, a retired person. The fate of the developers varied. John Sullivan died a well-to-do man who left money to Mount Holyoke College and to Edwards Church in memory of his two wives while Charles Crouch died of tuberculosis, overextended financially by construction of over 150 houses, many of whose mortgages he held. By the early 1920s Smith College began buying up houses that came on the market near the campus to house faculty members for the expanding women’s college. The ten new dormitories that made up the nearby Quad were begun in 1922, so the surrounding streets of Kensington Avenue, Dryads Green and Paradise Road were prime areas for faculty housing. Among those housed by Smith was Sidney Packard who was living here in 1925 and was a Professor of History at Smith College. He was followed by J. Edward and Mary Giles in 1926. J. Edward Giles was on the faculty of Smith, but by 1929 J. Edward was gone and Mary V. Giles, his widow continued to live here with Katherine Plunkett. It was at this time that the house was converted to a two-family residence. Mary Giles in 1931 was in one unit and William K. Durfee occupied the second. In 1934 Giles was gone and William and Kate Bailey lived here with Joseph and Katherine Mach. Joseph was a cook; Bailey was an insurance agent. By 1940 Helen A. Choate of Smith’s Botany Department was sharing the house with Joseph and Katherine Mach. Vera Sickels, professor of Speech, John and Shirley Hanks, music instructor at Smith were in the house in 1950. William Mead, assistant professor and his wife Katherine, and William H. Van Voris also assistant professor at Smith and his wife Jacqueline were sharing the two apartments in the house in 1960. This partial record of the Smith faculty who resided in the house is representative of the diversity of the faculty itself and of the mobility of the faculty members. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, 1873. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [49 DRYADS GREEN] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.572 Massachusetts Historical Commission. Reconnaissance Reports, “Northampton”, 1982. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895. Northampton Directories 1910-1960. Sanborn Insurance Maps, Northampton, 1915. U. S. Federal censuses 1890-1930. Walker, George H. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address State Archives Facility 220 Morrissey Boulevard Northampton 49 Dryads Green Boston, Massachusetts 02125 Area(s) Form No. NTH.572 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 historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side streets laid out from Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of the development of Northampton from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for attendance at Smith College, and the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a shift from gentlemen’s estates to accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers. According to criterion C this district would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles are all well-represented within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time.