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69 Paradise Road Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month / year): April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31C-16 Easthampton NTH.723 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 69 Paradise Road Historic Name: Elizabeth Mason Infirmary Uses: Present: Smith College infirmary Original: Smith College infirmary Date of Construction: 1919 Source: Smith College Archives Style/Form: Georgian Revival Architect/Builder: Taylor and Putnam, Architects, Northampton 1919; Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott, Architects, Boston, 1944 wing. Exterior Material: Foundation: brick, concrete Wall/Trim: brick, cast stone Roof: slate, copper Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): W ings added, 1944 and 1951 and additional stories added in 1951. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.403 acres Setting: This building faces east and its land slopes down to the south. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [65 PARADISE ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.723 _x__ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. 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 Georgian Revival style brick and cast stone building under a hipped slate roof. It has a two-and-a- half story ell on its west that connects to two wings extending to the north and the south for a modified H-shaped plan. The main block on the east is seven bays wide and one bay deep. It has a center entrance that is sheltered by a projecting, barrel-vaulted portico resting on stone columns and respondent pilasters with composite capitals below high impost blocks. The portico has a dentil row at its roof cornice and the roof itself is of copper. Windows in the main block have a mixture of 8/8 and 8/12 sash along with two pairs of 4/4 sash windows on the first floor of the east façade. Window lintels are splayed brick with cast stone keystones in typical Georgian Revival style. A brick watertable surrounds the main block and its cornice is ornamented with a row of triangle-shaped modillion blocks. There are three copper-covered, arched dormers on the east side of the roof and two chimneys on the west. The ell that is four bays long repeats the decorative features of the main block with similar fenestration, modillion blocks at the cornice of its slate roof and watertable. On its south elevation the ell has two oriel windows of fixed lights. The three-story, south wing is seven bays wide and has a two bay connector on its south end to a cross gable. 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: “The present Smith College Infirmary was completed in 1917-1919, on property formerly belonging to the Hoadley family. Mr. Frank H. Mason of Akron, Ohio and the Alumnae Association funded the 36 bed facility, which opened in 1919. Named for Mr. Mason’s daughter, Elizabeth Mason Howland, Smith ’04, the original building was designed by Taylor & Putnam of Northampton. In 1942-1943, a temporary wooden wing was built to accommodate the wartime Navy WAVE training program. This structure was demolished and replaced by the permanent Dr. Florence Gilman Pavilion, which was completed in 1944. Honoring Dr. Gilman, College Physician from 1909 until 1923, the Pavilion was designed by the Boston firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott. In 1951, a second floor wing was added to the pavilion.” The influenza pandemic of 1918 was an incentive for the completion of the infirmary. 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. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [65 PARADISE ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.723 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a potential historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side streets laid out on the south side of Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of the development of Northampton from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for attendance at Smith College, and the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a shift from gentlemen’s estates to accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers. According to criterion C this district would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles are all well-represented within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time.