333 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
24C-44 Easthampton NTH.281
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 333 Elm Street
Historic Name: J. H. Lyman Residence
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1866-1868
Source: Registry of Deeds, 222.154, 254.196
Style/Form: Italianate/Eclectic
Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt, architect,
Northampton, attr. Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: flushboard
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 1.25 acres
Setting: House is set back from the street on a large lot
that is raised. Gate posts mark the driveway.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [333 ELM STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.281
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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 one of two Italianate style houses with Gothic Revival features in this section of Elm Street, the second being at 319 Elm
Street, though the two take quite different form. This is a two-and-a-half story house with a gambrel roof and an Italianate
centered cross-gable. The roof has Gothic Revival jerkin heads on the east and west ends. Roof eaves are wide and unboxed
with exposed rafters. The house is sided in flushboard and corner quoins, the better to resemble the stonework of an Italian
palazzo. At the same time, Gothic bargeboards ornament the front gable and windows have hood lintels, footed sills, and paired
sash. Extending across the center bay of the north façade is a hipped roof porch on posts with a small balustrade in front of
paired, full-length windows at the second story level. This balustrade feature is found in the same location at the house at 319
Elm Street. On the east elevation is a one-story, three-sided bay window and in the gable ends of the house are round arched
windows. There is a two-story ell on the north elevation. This house comes very close to A. J. Downing’s Design XVI in The
Architecture of Country Houses.
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: “One of two fine mansions owned and built on Elm Street by J. H. Lyman, this villa was built between
1864 and 1868 when Lyman sold the property to William Bone for $10,000. The Gazette in late 1865 noted that a fine residence
would be erected ‘on the lot above Mr. Clements, purchased by J. H. Lyman,’ the following year.
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, 374.83, 262.128, 254.196, 256.122, 222.154