57 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
39A-059 Easthampton NTH.1089
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 57 Lyman Road
Historic Name: Chauncey H. Pierce House
Uses: Present: Two family residence
Original: Single family residence
Date of Construction: 1871-73 (owner said 1862!)
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Clapboard
Roof: Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
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] [57 LYMAN ROAD]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.1089
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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 home in the Italianate Style under a front gabled roof. This home is very similar to the house at 39
Lyman Road in form but less expressive of the Italianate style in its detailing. The overhanging roof eaves make partial returns
and there is wide frieze board beneath the eaves. Cornerboards define the frame of this building. A modified palladium style
window is located in the gable field. The clapboard sided house is three bays wide and three bays deep. On the western
elevation of the home, there is a shallow two story wing to which there is a three sided oriel affixed on the first story. On the
eastern elevation of the main block of the house is a two-story bay with paneled divider between the two stories. In addition,
there is a blind window in the second bay of both the first and second stories on the eastern elevation. Window sash on the
house is mostly 2/2, but they are somewhat hidden beneath storm windows. Some of the windows were replaced in 2008. Many
of the windows have splayed projecting lintels and footed sills. The house has a front porch that extends across the front façade.
The porch has a low-pitched hipped roof with wide frieze board supported by square columns with impost blocks and high
pedestals, low balustrade with square balusters, and pediment marking the front entry. The front entry door features a transom
and three-quarter length sidelights. Extending off the southern end of the main block of the house is a two story rear ell addition
with a one story addition on its eastern end—both with minimal stylistic features. The one story rear addition appears to be an
enclosed porch. The house rests on a brick foundation and has 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, “This was third house built on Lyman Road (originally known as High Street), which had been laid out in
1870 by brothers Charles and Alfred Starkweather through a subdivision of their family’s South Street homestead. This street
was built in two sections with a dog-leg, and early residences were built on the eastern half of the street. This half backed up to
the brow of the old Mill River terrace and provided land owners with a relatively secluded location. Chauncey Pierce was co-
owner, with A Perry-Peck, of a Main St. insurance agency. “
Jack and Susan Borocas bought the house in 1974 and lived here in 2010.
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. 310-p.457, 284-89
Northampton Directory: 1873-74