63 Dryads Green
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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
31A-263 Easthampton NTH.567
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 63 Dryads Green
Historic Name: Adelaide Moffat House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1894
Source: Registry of Deeds, Atlas, and Springfield
Daily Republican Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboard
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.181 acres
Setting: This is a west-facing house on a quiet,
tree-shaded, residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [63 DRYADS GREEN]
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NTH.567
__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 a two-and-a-half story house that shares with 23 Dryads Green many of its Colonial Revival features. It has a side gable
gambrel roof with a cross-gambrel gable on the front and a two-story gambrel roofed bay on the south for a complex plan. The
clapboard-sided house has a flat-roofed entry porch in the angle between the main block and the two-story south bay. It rests
on Doric columns and has Doric respondent pilasters at the façade wall. The entry itself is topped by a half-round, leaded
fanlight. The west façade is two bays wide with a rounded bay on the north and a window with 9/1 sash that is repeated
elsewhere in the building. This house has a compact plan, but manages to have a picturesque elevation with strong Colonial
Revival features.
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 house was built in 1894 for Miss Adelaide Moffat at a cost of $3000. Miss Moffat served as
secretary to the author and lecturer G.W. Cable, who also lived on Dryads Green, and she was secretary for the Home Culture
Club, a program of Mr. Cable’s for Self-Improvement, which later became formalized as the People’s Institute.”
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] [63 DRYADS GREEN]
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220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.567
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.