36 Lyman Road
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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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): June, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
38B-052 Easthampton NTH.2194
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 36 Lyman Road
Historic Name: Alfred Starkweather House
Uses: Present: Four-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: circa 1870
Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Clapboard
Roof: Asphalt shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Circa 1925 garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Southern elevation windows covered pre-1980
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.52 acres
Setting: House on a corner lot that sits back from the
road. House among other stately single family or former
single family homes. Residential neighborhood contains
mature trees throughout.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [36 LYMAN ROAD]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2194
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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-story Italianate style house with a gable front and wing plan. Extending off the eastern end of the main block of the
house is a two story rear ell addition with minimal stylistic features. The main block of the house has wide overhanging eaves
that are supported by paired brackets, which are characteristic of the Italianate style. In the angle between the gable front and
wing is a low-pitched one-story porch that is supported by square posts on pedestals. The front entry door is located under this
porch and the door has characteristic double glazed arches. The front façade of the home has a two-story bay with arched 2/2
sash windows. All windows on the home are 2/2 sash, but are hidden by vinyl storm windows. Windows on the main block of the
house feature a full entablature while the windows on the rear ell additions have simple flat stock surrounds. On the southern
elevation of the home is a one-story three sided bay. Two of the windows on the southern elevation were covered over prior to
1980, but the window surrounds remain. The wide frieze beneath the eaves contains attic grilles. The house has two brick
chimneys on the main block of the house. The clapboard sided house rests on a brick foundation and is topped by an asphalt
roof.
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 1980, “The Starkweather family first settled on South Street in 1797. Charles Starweather owned and operated
a sawmill and gristmill on Clark Ave, and was chosen a selectmen in 1803. His son Haynes K., a framer, continued on the
homestead until his death in 1866. At this time, Haynes tow sons, Charles and Alfred, decided to subdivide the homestead,
which stretched easterly from South Street to the brow of the old Mill River terrace into the meadows. High Street (now known as
Lyman Road) was laid out from South Street easterly to the brow of the terrace. Alfred Starkweather chose a lot on the north
side, at a dog-leg in the street, thus his house is prominently sited at the foot of the first leg of the street.”
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: bk 365-P.325, 339-199, 254-277
Northampton Directory: 1873-74
Antiquities, Historicals and Graduates of Northampton, Rev Solomon Clark, 1882 , page 167
Daily Hampshire Gazette, August 2, 1902.