280-282 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-79 Easthampton NTH.484
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 280-282 Elm Street
Historic Name: Marie and Alice Warner House
Uses: Present: Apartments
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: 1891
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.17 acres
Setting: Facing north on Elm Street, this house is
prominent in the landscape as it is not buffered by large
trees as are most of the neighboring houses.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [280-282 ELM STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.484
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Warner House is among the most elegant of Northampton’s Colonial Revival style houses. Its design is based on Charles
Bulfinch’s Federal townhouses for Boston’s Beacon Hill with a center entry flanked by two rounded bays. It is two and a half
stories high and its center entry is sheltered by a two-story oval porch under a shed roof with an attached pediment that rests on
paired, fluted Doric columns. Each entablature of the porch has a classical dentil row. A watertable and beltcourse separate the
stories, and there is a broad frieze below the cornice, and eaves with double fillets. On the hipped roof are three front-gabled
dormers.
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 1977: “House appears on the 1895 Map of Northampton, owners Misses Marie & Alice Warner”
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: 1914/214 1976, 1404/223 1963, 1017/74 1950, 846/113 1928, 743/243 1918, 441/291 1891