76 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
31B-251 Easthampton NTH.707
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 76 Elm Street
Historic Name: Elizabeth Hopkins House
Uses: Present: College offices and apartment
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: 1889
Source: Deeds
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: random granite
Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.129 acres
Setting: This house is part of the Smith College campus.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [76 ELM STREET ]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.707
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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 a large number of Queen Anne style buildings on Elm Street. It is a two-and-a-half story house that is gable-and-
wing in form. The house is clapboard-sided on the first floor and shingled on the second floor. The front-gabled section of the
house at the first floor on the north façade has an oval-shaped bay window of one-story that has a shingled base beneath a
band of windows whose corner sash is also rounded. Shingles that curve around the bay suggest the designer of the house was
familiar with the Shingle Style. This section of the house also has on its roof two eye-brow windows that were popular in the
Shingle Style. The one-and-a-half story wing, under its steeply pitched roof has a porch on posts linked by slightly rounded
arches. It is four bays wide and has a wide band of copper at its roof edge. On the roof is a Queen Anne style polygonal dormer
adjacent to a single hipped dormer in a deliberate asymmetry. There is Queen Anne style sash in the dormer with multiple lights
around a center pane.
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: “Miss Elizabeth Hopkins was the revered Head of Dewey House from 1875 to 1890, the first Head of
House at Smith College. In 1889, Miss Hopkins purchased a strip of land 50ft by 100ft from Miss Lydia Tucker, who owned
property at 84 Elm Street, adding triangular pieces from abutting properties to align the property with Elm Street. It was probably
in that year that she built the house. She willed the property to her friend Eleanor Cushing who was professor of Mathematics at
Smith College. Miss Cushing owned and occupied the house from 1897 to 1922, when she sold it to Smith College.
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.
Register of Deeds, Bk. 423-P.23, Bk.781-P.431