96 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
24D-316 Easthampton NTH.360
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 96 Round Hill Road
Historic Name: Arthur and Margaret Locke House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1916-1922
Source: Street Directories
Style/Form: Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: not visible
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.287 acre
Setting: This house occupies a corner lot that is raised in
a residential neighborhood.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [96 ROUND HILL ROAD]
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_x__ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Locke House is a classical example of a Georgian Revival house, designed as a branch of the Colonial Revival. It is two-
and-a-half stories under a side-gable roof on which are three deeply pedimented dormers and two chimneys. The clapboard-
sided house is five bays wide and three bays deep and its center entry is a Georgian-derived, hipped-roof portico on paired
Doric columns. The portico has a full entablature with a decorative row of dentils at its cornice level, metopes and triglyphs on
its frieze. The entry has a dummy fanlight and sidelights – more Federal Revival than Georgian, but offering more light to the
interior. Windows in the house have 6/6 sash. There is an ell on the west elevation and a side porch on the north.
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 large house was built around 1920 for Arthur and Margaret Locke. Mr. Locke was a professor of
Music at Smith College. Round Hill, north of the Clark School, was opened up for residential development around 1900 and
features many examples of ‘Colonial Revival’ architecture. The hill provided fine vistas of the Connecticut River Valley and was
a much sought after address.”
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.
Registry of Deeds: Bk. 727-P. 419
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [96 ROUND HILL ROAD]
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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.