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72 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-250-001 Easthampton NTH.556 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 72 Dryads Green Historic Name: Regis Michaud House Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1896 Source: integral date medallion Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles, clapboards Roof: slate, asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.117 acres Setting: This an east-facing house that occupies a full width lot between Dryads Green and Kensington Avenue. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [72 Dryads Green] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.556 __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 Colonial Revival style house that is often referred to as “Dutch Colonial Revival” for its gambrel roof. It is a t wo-and-a- half story building with a front-gambrel roof. It is three bays wide and three bays deep and its street façade is composed a full width porch on Doric columns topped by a second story railing. The second story of the porch is reached by two second story doors. The house has clapboards on the first floor and shingles on the second, a common Colonial Revival treatment, and between the two stories is a fairly wide overhanging jetty above a row of dentils. Unlike most of its neighbors, the house has fieldstone foundations. It has a slate roof on the upper angle of the roof, but the lower angle’s shingles have been replaced with asphalt. The east façade is two bays wide. An entry is diamond pane glass on its upper half and paneled below. Adjacent to it for the second bay is a triple window composition of 6/1 sash. There are two pedimented dormers on the south side of the roof and a one-story bay window on the south elevation as well. In the east and west gables of the house are Palladian-inspired windows of three parts, above which is a dummy fan with an incongruous keystone – keysto nes usually being used on lintels and door surrounds rather than fanlights. Sash in the house is mainly 12/2. There is a date medallion on the west façade beneath the attic windows with the date “1896” on it. The placement of this medallion is curious, being on what is the rear of the house rather than its street façade, but represents, most likely, the builder’s attempt to provide street-worth facades on a house with two street frontages. 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 a large farm property, owned by Daniel Clark that faced on to Elm Street and stretched south to the Mill River. Beginning in 1890 the land was opened up when Charles Crouch a developer put in Kensington Avenue to meet the housing needs of Northampton’s growing middle class population. The City was, between 1900 and 1915, adding over 400 residents a year. Following Kensington Avenue, between 1890 and 1895 Dryads Green was laid out and lots sold on it for development. The street connected to Paradise Road on the east by making two turns. Two lots extended between Kensington Avenue and the narrow section of Dryads Green that ran in a north-south direction. They were full through-lots owned by J. C. Hammond of the partnership Hammond and Sullivan that developed Dryads Green. This house was soon to be built on one of the two lots in 1898. Its first owner identified in the street directory of 1919 – though it was occupied before that date - is Regis Michaud an associate professor French at Smith College. The French language connection with this house persisted, and in 1929 Rene and Jeanne Guiet lived here. They were both assistant professors of French at Smith. In 1934 the house was occupied by John and Gladys Anslow and their daughter Sadie. John did not work out of the home, but Gladys was an associate professor of Physics at Smith and Sadie was a private secretary. By 1940 Gladys was here alone, but ran the Hampshire County Business and Professional Women’s Club from the house. She was still living in the house in 1960. J. C. Hammond followed up his development activities on Dryads Green, Forbes Avenue and elsewhere in town by buying up control of the horse-drawn streetcar company, electrifying it and providing transportation within and beyond Northampton for residents. Hammond was a lawyer, a farmer and entrepreneur who was a trustee of the Clarke School, Williston Seminary, Hopkins Academy, and was overseer of the charity fund of Amherst College. His brother-in-law John Sullivan with whom he invested in real estate development ran the largest grain and hardware business in Hampshire County and had its place of business the Sullivan Building at 1 Main Street. He was a town clerk and was part of the streetcar company with Hammond. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [72 Dryads Green] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.556 BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Hampshire Gazette, July 13, 1925, July 16, 1925. Northampton Directories 1910-1960. U. S. Federal censuses 1890-1930. Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Walker, George H. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895. Massachusetts Historical Commission. Reconnaissance Reports, “Northampton”, 1982. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [72 DRYADS GREEN] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 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. Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address State Archives Facility 220 Morrissey Boulevard Northampton 72 Dryads Green Boston, Massachusetts 02125 Area(s) Form No. 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.