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40-42 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): April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-004-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 40-42 Round Hill Road Historic Name: Adams House Uses: Present: Faculty housing Original: Faculty housing Date of Construction: 1891 Source: School history Style/Form: Eclectic Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Sash replaced with 1/1 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 7.4 acres Setting: This building faces south and is set on the campus of the Clarke School. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [40-42 Round Hill Road] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH. _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. Adams House is a two-and-a-half story, two-family house. It is eclectic in style. From the Colonial Revival comes the gambrel roof with a gambrel roof front-gable while the brickwork is Queen Anne – sometimes referred to as “Panel Brick” when in masonry – with corbelled roof cornice, stringcourses that act as continuous window sills and lintels. Queen Anne as well is the porch on the south façade. It has turned post supports, a spindled frieze and railings with turned balusters. Windows are segmentally arched and they have incised frames in a floral pattern. The house is six bays wide and three bays deep and proportions are large. 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. Adams House was built in 1891 for two of the Clarke School’s teachers and their families, one of whom was the wood shop teacher. It was named for Frederick Adams, who was shop instructor at the school from 1916 to 1959. Coach Henry Wilhelm and his family lived in the house as did Calvin Coolidge as a young lawyer in Northampton. It was here that he met Clarke teacher Grace Goodhue, leading to their eventual marriage. In 1920 there were three teachers living in the house: Mary E. Cobb who taught music and Archie T. Phillips, his wife Nell and their two children were in #40. Archie was a school steward. and Fred Allen was in #42, though he doesn’t appear in the census that year. In 1930 #40 was vacant but Alice and Fred Adams lived in #42. Fred was an instructor at the school and a cabinet maker and antiques dealer. Both units were vacant in 1940. In 1950 #40 was vacant and in #42 Henry E. Wilhelm, mentioned above, and his wife Janet were in the apartment. . 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 ] [40-42 Round Hill Road] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH. 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.