84 Round Hill Road
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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): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
31B-315 Easthampton NTH.592
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 84 Round Hill Road
Historic Name: William P. Strickland House
Uses: Present: Four-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1908
Source: Springfield Daily Republican
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Vinyl siding added, windows replaced, ca. 2000.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 1.43 acres
Setting: This house is on the crest of Round Hill
and is set back from the street on a large lot.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [84 ROUND HILL ROAD]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 1
NTH.592
__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 two-and-a-half story, Colonial Revival style house has been altered during its conversion to four-family use. Vinyl siding
and replacement windows diminish the effect of its original details and materials. The large house has a front-gable roof with
cross-gables on the north and south elevations where there are also asymmetrical wings, creating a complex plan and elevation.
The eaves of the front-gable roof make full returns to create a pediment. Two sets of paired windows fill the gable field below a
jetty in the gable peak. A full-width, hipped-roof porch on Colonial Revival style Doric columns crosses the east façade. It has a
balustrade on the second floor level that becomes a second story porch entered by a single, centered door. The house is only
three bays wide but windows are paired under capped lintels to create larger openings.
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: “This house was built in 1908 for William Strickland, a lawyer and judge of the District Court, at a cost of
$8000. This property, at the crest of Round Hill had been part of the estate of Round Hill Hotel, Northampton’s most celebrated
tourist spot of the mid 19th century. After the demise of the hotel in the early 1870’s, several development schemes had been
proposed, but it was not until the turn of the century that residential building took place.
After Judge Strickland’s death, the house became part of the Clark School for the Deaf’s property and was lived in by
Caroline Yale, the second principal of the school.”
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] [84 ROUND HILL ROAD]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 2
NTH.592
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.