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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: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): April, 2011
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
31B-297-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 12 Round Hill Road
Historic Name: Charles P. Huntington Carriage House
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Carriage barn
Date of Construction: ca. 1840-1870
Source: History of Huntington House construction
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: poured concrete
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Converted from carriage barn to house ca. 1955.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.184 acres
Setting: This house is set back from the street and
behind a large house on the corner of Round Hill Road and
Elm Street
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [12 Round Hill Road]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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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 Colonial Revival style house with a side-gable roof above its two stories. It has a cross-gable with full eaves return on
its east façade. The gabled section of the building is two bays wide and has a side entry under a shed roofed hood. The vinyl-
sided building has a shed-roofed garage on the north and a screened porch on the south. It has the earmarks of a converted
building as its parts do not cohere.
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.
This house was converted to a residence from the carriage barn of the Charles P. Huntington. Its history is related to that of the
house and from the Form B of 1970 for 137 Elm Street: “This Mediterranean-type villa was erected in 1841 by Hadley-born
Charles P. Huntington on land bought from Edward Clark. Huntington was later appointed justice of the Massachusetts
Supreme Court and moved to Boston. In 1856, Reverend William Silsbee, pastor of the Unitarian Church, purchased it. In
1864, the Merritt Clarks bought it and his family lived in the house for 46 years until the death of Mary Clark (a niece of Merritt) in
1939. It was then for some years the home of owners Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Grover until purchased by the Mary A. Burnham
School in 1965. It is now owned and occupied by the family of Richard Shea.” The house does not appear as an address on
Round Hill as late as the directory of 1950, so was converted after that date.
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.