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47 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-006 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 47 Round Hill Road Historic Name: Gardiner Green Hubbard Hall Uses: Present: School offices Original: School offices Date of Construction: 1912; 1929 Source: Sanborn Insurance Maps Style/Form: Classical Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Ell on east added 1929 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 2.34 acres Setting: This building faces west and is located on the crest of Round Hill. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [47 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. Hubbard Hall is a two story, brick building under a flat roof with a parapet. The west façade is 19 bays long and three of the bays at each end of the façade project slightly within a pavilion. The pavilion bays are separated by piers. The center 13 bays are not similarly separated. Centered on the façade is the main entry, a Classical Revival trabeated entry surround with two pairs of brownstone pilasters supporting a full brownstone entablature. The entry is composed of a door below a high transom flanked by sidelights. Running beneath the brownstone-capped parapet wall is a projecting brownstone cornice. Brownstone sills, lintels and watertable ornament the building. The south elevation is five bays deep. Two pairs of windows with 1/1 sash flank a center stair window that is one-and-a-half stories in height and has three-part composition window sash. On the east elevation is a large, two-story wing that was added later. It continues the style of the main block. 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. Hubbard Hall was named after one of the Clarke School for the Deaf’s founders and the first president of its Board of Trustees, Gardiner Green Hubbard. Hubbard’s daughter, who was deaf, married Alexander Graham Bell. The building was constructed in 1912 on the site of Clarke Hall, the school’s first classroom building, and at its completion it served to hold a library and a chapel on the first story and classrooms on the second story. It was connected to Rogers Hall in 1976.. Hubbard Hall was designed by A. Lincoln Fechheimer. Fechheimer graduated from Clarke School in the class of 1891, and returned to design for the school twice: once in the 1910s and again in the 1930s. Besides Skinner Hall Fechheimer designed Coolidge Hall and most likely the Engineer’s Cottage. He was an Ohio architect trained at Columbia University and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He began practice in Cincinnati in 1906 in partnership with Harry Hake and then with Benjamin L. Ihorst into the 1940s, and specialized in school campus work. He died in 1954. 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 ] [47 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.