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20 Round Hill 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): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-166 Easthampton NTH.648 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 20 Round Hill Road Historic Name: Harold Lee House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1923 Source: Directories & Permit Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Karl S. Putnam, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.545 acres Setting: This house faces east behind a circular drive. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [20 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.648 _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 complex version of the Colonial Revival being an interpretation not of a Georgian or Federal house, but a revival of a First Period style house. It is two-and-a-half stories, brick, and has a side-gable roof with two massive end wall chim neys. Architect Putnam designed the house with a “porch”, a First Period entryway in the form of a pavilion, several versions of which were extant at the time he designed the house. The house has a stringcourse between first and second stories and is five bays wide and three bays deep. The porch entry has an eared architrave surround above which is a footed brick lintel with a projecting splayed brick keystone. On the west elevation of the house are two ells that represent two other house forms that followed the First Period house. The first ell is a two-and-a-half story block under a side-gable roof. It is three bays wide and the equivalent of three bays deep and has a center entry on its north façade. This ell also of brick has the stringcourse following across its façade from the main block. The second ell is a one-and-a-half story Cape Cod form block. It is brick and is three bays wide. 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 1922, Samuel W. Lee took out a permit for this brick house, to be constructed at a cost of $30,000. The eventual occupant was Harold Lee, secretary of the Corticelli Silk Company in Florence. Karl Scott Putnam was Northampton’s most prominent architect of the first half of the 20th century. He was the son of Roswell F. Putnam, a local architect of the turn of the centur y period and joined his father’s firm after training in the New York offices of Edward Tilton. Karl Putnam joined Smith College in the early 1920’s. Mr. Putnam is best known for his work in the Colonial style of architecture.” 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] [20 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.648 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 Round Hill Historic District. This potential historic district is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. The residential streets that cross Round Hill are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of development in Northampton from the early 19th century (1807) through the 1950s. Residential development began on Round Hill with the establishment of gentleman’s estates but grew with schools and a resort hotel until the 1890s when residential development increased significantly. From the 1890s through the 1950s (1959 McAlister Infirmary) Round Hill became home to Northampton’s wealthy and to the Clarke School for the Deaf. Architecturally this area of Northampton is significant for the range of residential architectural styles including the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival, and for its institutional buildings in the French Second Empire, through High Victorian Gothic and Colonial Revival styles ending with the American International style. The potential district has integrity of workmanship, design, feeling, association, and materials.