49 Lyman Road
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`FORM B − BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Photograph
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-089 Easthampton NTH.1015
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 49 Lyman Road
Historic Name: Charles & Martha Starkweather House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1788
Source: Photographic Collection at Forbes Library
Style/Form: Federal
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Clapboard
Roof: Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
- Side porch added & screened
- Side screened porch removed and then completely rebuilt
in 2002
Condition: good
Moved: no | | yes | x | Date 1870
Acreage: 0.23 acres
Setting: House among other stately single family or former
single family homes in a well-established residential
neighborhood, which contains mature trees throughout.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [49 LYMAN ROAD]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.1015
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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-and-a-half story Federal style house under a front gable roof. This house was moved here from South Street in
1870. Form B of 1980 stated that the house was originally sited in this manner when it was located on South Street—with the
gable frontward to the street—as shown in an early photograph. The house is three bays wide and two bays deep. The front
gable is pedimented and has a demi lunette in the gable field with decorative keystone. The full-width front porch has a low
pitched hipped roof, square pilasters, railing with square balusters. The front entry door is framed by square pilasters and
features a doubles transom. The porch was likely added after the house was moved in 1870, but this should be confirmed. A
side porch on the eastern elevation was added after the 1870s, but this porch was removed in the 2000s and completely rebuilt
to its current enclosed form in 2002. The house is clapboard and now has a brick foundation due to it being moved in 1870.
Windows on the home were replaced in the 1980s, but kept the characteristic 12/12 sash. Three additions have been added to
rear of the home. The first two are two-stories in height and the third is a very shallow one-story addition. There is brick chimney
along the ridge line in the center of the main block of the home.
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, “This house originally stood on South Street on the northeast side where Lyman Road now joins the
street. Haynes Kingsley, a member of the family that settled on South Street in 1739, owned land in this area. His daughter
Martha married Charles Starkweather in 1781, and her father had this house built in 1788 for them. Charles owned and operated
a gristmill and sawmill on the banks of the Mill River off of Clark Avenue. The homestead passed to the son, Haynes Kingsley
Starkweather, and at his death to his son, Charles G. Starkweather. Charles and his brother Alfred subdivided the homestead for
residential development, and opened up High Street (now Lyman Road) in 1870. Their grandfather’s house was moved to its
present location at that time. Alfred had a new house built for himself on High Street (Lyman Road), while Charles G. resided on
South Street in the house of his great-grandfather, Haynes Kingsley (this circa 1750 house was taken down in 1788).”
Agnes Howland owned home in 1980s. Earl T. Billingsley bought the house in 1998.
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.
Forbes Library photographic collection, “Starkweather House”
Antiquities, Historicals and Graduates of Northampton, Rev Solomon Clark, 1882.