319 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-3 Easthampton NTH.448
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 319 Elm Street
Historic Name: A.H. Lyman House
Uses: Present: Four-family residence
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: 1870
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, 5/31/1870
Style/Form: Gothic Revival
Architect/Builder: William F. Pratt, architect,
Northampton Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Vinyl siding added, ca. 1990
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.338 acres
Setting: The house is set back from the street and
screened from the street by shrubbery.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [319 ELM STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.448
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
Despite the fact that this house has been vinyl-sided and its stylistic character compromised, its architect-designed, Gothic
Revival form remains in its unique plan. The main block of the house is one-and-a-half stories under a steeply-pitched side-
gable roof. It is three bays wide and centered on its street façade is a front-gabled pavilion of one-and-a-half stories. A long
north ell has two, steeply-pitched, cross-gabled bays on its east and west elevations for a complex plan. Entry to the main block
is in the center pavilion and is beneath a hood on consoles with pendants with a small balustrade above the hood ornamenting a
round-arched, second story window. In the main block first story windows have 2/2 sash and above them are through-cornice,
Gothic dormers with pointed windows of 2/2 sash. Attached to the east elevation of the main block is a polygonal, single-story
bay window with five arched windows of diamond pane sash. This polygonal bay has a balustrade of cross-buck pattern.
Second story windows are arched. The cross-gables extending from the ell have arched windows, and between them are
through-cornice dormers with pointed sash.
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 1975: “This cottage was designed in 1870 by W. F. Pratt and built for A. H. Lyman on upper Elm Street,
‘between the Fowle and Clement residences.’ Lyman purchased lot #2 from H. G. Maynard for $1000 in 1869 and sold the
parcel ‘together with the dwellinghouse thereon standing’ to S. C. Parsons in 1871. (Lyman is referred to as A. W. Lyman at
Registry of Deeds.”
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.