222 Elm Street
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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-72 Easthampton NTH.480
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 222 Elm Street
Historic Name: Hammond House
Uses: Present: Three-family residence
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: 1891
Source: The Northampton Book, p 158
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: R.F. Putnam and son Karl Scott
Putnam Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: brick, shingles, brownstone
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Converted to multi-family use, ca. 1990
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.603 acres
Setting: House occupies a large corner lot in an area of
Northampton that was divided and developed in the later
19th century.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [222 ELM STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Hammond House is a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne style house in the variation described by Virginia and Lee
McAlester in their work on American architecture as “Free Classic” for the use of classically-derived columns and piers and
molding details. The house is composed of a hipped roof center section from which cross-gables on north and east project and
a corner tower rises on the northeast. The house is brick on the first story and shingled above, and the projecting north cross-
gable has a jetty supported on consoles between second and third stories, and a recessed Palladian window in the third story
gable field. In the angle between the main block of the house and the north cross-gable is a porch that rests on fluted, ½-length
Ionic columns and fluted piers. The porch has a pediment over the entry stairs and in the gable field of the pediment is a f loral
relief common to the Free Classic style. Porch pedestals are brick and there is a railing of square balusters. A feature of the
house that indicates the architects were aware of H. H. Richardson’s Shingle Style is the use of a rounded corner wrapped with
shingles that flow over it and the eastern rounded cross gabled bay. Bands of four casement windows appear on both first and
second stories and on the first story the windows as is characteristic of both the Queen Anne Free Classic and Shingle Styles.
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 1970: “R.F. Putnam (1841-1911) was an Amherst Academy schoolmate of John C. Hammond (born in
Leverett). He studied with architect Fuller of Worcester; worked in Leverett and Amherst, where he built Colonial-style houses.
There was a Putnam and Bayley office in Northampton and later, this became a partnership with his son Karl Putnam. The
Hammond House was begun in 1891 by the firm. Calvin Coolidge read law in the elder “Judge” Hammond’s law office. As a
young man, he stayed in this house when the Hammond family was away during the summers in Goshen. This home remained
in the Hammond family for many years. Mrs. Ethel Hammond Cornell, daughter of the builder, still resides in the house.”
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.