58 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-057 Easthampton NTH.1087
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 58 Lyman Road
Historic Name: Dwight A. Graves House
Uses: Present: Single family residence
Original: Single family residence
Date of Construction: 1881-84
Source: Atlas and Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: Brick
Wall/Trim: Clapboard
Roof: Asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Circa 1920s garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.28 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] [58 LYMAN ROAD]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.1087
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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 clapboard sided Italianate home with a truncated hipped roof. On the eastern and western elevations of the
home is a shallow two-story wing with jerkin head roof from which projects two story Italianate paneled bay. The form of this
house, then, is in the shape of a cross. Beneath the eaves is a molded cornice with dentils and wide friezeboard. The front of
the home features a gabled wall dormer framed by bargeboards with quatre-foil cut outs. Within the gable field of the wall dormer
is a peaked two over two sash window with full entablature. A one-story Queen Anne style porch extends across the full width of
the front façade and continues on the eastern side to the two story wing. The porch has arched spandrels that connect to turned
posts, a spindle frieze and an elaborately carved balustrade below which is a matching apron. The porch has been screened in
and the additional posts are present for this purpose. The front entry has a wide two light transom and a very narrow set of
sidelights. Most of the windows are two over two sash with architrave surrounds topped with projecting cornices on almost flat
consoles. The home has two elaborated brick chimneys. Extending from the northeastern corner of the home is one-story
addition that appears to be a modern sun room. The property includes a circa 1920s garage.
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: “In 1881 Dwight Graves and Silas Cooley, Main Street tobacco dealers, bought all the land on the north
side of High Street (now Lyman Road) east of Silas Cooley’s homestead (number 36 Lyman Rd.). During the 1880's, Graves
and Cooley sold this land off as homestead lots. This lot was kept by Mr. Graves and by 1884 the house was built.”
Like many of the single family homes on this street, this house was converted to a two family home in the 20th century. However,
it was converted back to a single family home in the 1990s.
Dan & Joan Haugaard owned the house in the 1980. Jonathan and Diane Harr have owned the house since 1981.
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 376-p 188
Northampton Directory: 1885-86, 1895-96