225 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-15 Easthampton NTH.457
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 225 Elm Street
Historic Name: Southwick House
Uses: Present: Apartments
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: 1906-1915
Source: Registry of Deeds; 1915 Map
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: brick, granite, shingles, wood, stucco
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Carriage barn
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.574 acres
Setting: This house sits on a corner lot in a section of
Northampton built up on late 19th and early 20th century
houses. Gate posts mark entry to the drive.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [225 ELM STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.457
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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 Queen Anne house that is a version of the style known as “Half-timbered” and shares several
features with the Tudor Revival. It consists of a hipped roof center section with cross-gables on each elevation. Two cross-
gables are located on the south façade with half-timbering in their gables. Set between the two is a front-gabled dormer. All
three gables have barge board trim. The house is a yellow brick on the first story with granite trim as a beltcourse and
alternating granite blocks and brick in the splayed window lintels. The second story is shingle-sided. The center entry is a wide
opening with an elliptical fanlight over a door that is flanked by leaded glass sidelights. A one-story porch crosses the north
façade. It rests on paired posts on brick pedestals and has shallow curved braces at its eaves. There is a balustrade on the
porch roof in front of a second story pavilion that has a pair of 12/1 full length windows flanking a center glass door. The second
story windows are 12/1 sash. The house has a Queen Anne carriage barn.
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 1976: “This Tudor Revival style residence was erected at the corner of Elm and Franklin Streets in the first
decade of the twentieth century. The house was built for Elbridge Southwick, who purchased the homestead of Henry Edwards
in 1906 and rebuilt on the lot between that time and 1915.”
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.
Registry of Deeds, Hampshire County, 607.65