71 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-B Easthampton NTH.568
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 71 Dryads Green
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1895-1915
Source: Atlases
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards, half-timbering
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.171 acre
Setting: This is a west-facing house on a corner lot in a
neighborhood of residential homes and college dormitories.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [72 DRYADS GREEN]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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_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 fine, half-timbered, Queen Anne style house that is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof. It has a
cross-gable bay on the south elevation and a full-width porch across its west façade. The porch has a pediment over its entry.
The gables and pediment of the house are all half-timbered and have narrow molded bargeboards at their eaves. The spandrels
on the shed roof porch are also half-timbered. The clapboard-sided house has a stringcourse and watertable dividing its stories.
There is a two-story rear ell on the house. The south cross-gabled bay is square sided at the second floor level and angled at
the first story level for a picturesque elevation. Windows in the house are 9/1 and 2/1 and have flat stock surrounds. The porch
railing has solid balusters with Eastlake cutouts.
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: “Dryads Green was opened in 1890 as part of Hammond and Sullivan’s subdivision off of Elm Street,
which also included Harrison Avenue and the west end of Kensington Avenue. On the southern side of Kensington Avenue,
there was only room for single lots, so this lot has frontage on Kensington Avenue and Dryads Green. The house fronts on
Dryads Green and was constructed around the turn-of-the-century.”
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] [72 DRYADS GREEN]
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220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.556
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.