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3 Tyler Court 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: PVPC Date (month / year): January, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-296-001 Easthampton NTH.2461 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 3 Tyler Court Historic Name: Joseph and Jean Huber House Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1933 Source: Northampton Directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: attached garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.310 acres Setting: Set on a raised corner lot, the house has a brick terrace in front. It has a large landscaped lot with mature shade trees. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [3 TYLER COURT] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2461 __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 fine example of the 20th century Colonial Revival style house, a style that began in the last quarter of the 19th century and continues to the present. It is two-and-a-half stories under a side-gable roof, is five bays wide and two bays deep but unlike most of its New England Colonial predecessors it has centered, end-wall chimneys. The east façade has a center entrance reached through a portico on Doric columns and battered pilasters, both of which have high impost blocks. The columns support the portico’s entablature that has a frieze and row of over-scaled dentils beneath its cornice. This row of dentils is repeated at the eaves cornice of the main house roof. The portico has a flat roof topped by a wrought iron railing. The door surround is broad and consists of battered pilasters supporting an entablature. The door itself has nine lights in its upper half and is paneled in its lower half. Windows in the house are large-scaled and have 8/8 sash. Their lintels are a row of soldier bricks. A two-bay garage wing is located on the north elevation of the house, set back from the plane of the façade. It has a second story level with two small windows and is clapboard sided. 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. Tyler Court was laid out as a new street from Prospect Street in 1929 on land that had belonged to Henry M. Tyler. Tyler was a professor of Greek and Literature at Smith College who lived at 44 Prospect Street and sold his property to Eugene J. McCarthy in 1928 including his house. After selling this property, Henry Tyler moved to a rental with a son and at the age of 86 in 1930 was president of the Northampton Street Railway Company. He had always been active in academic, religious and commercial institutions. He was a deacon and on the Board of Directors of the Edwards Church in the 1890s, was president of the YMCA for a number of years, retired from Smith by 1925 when he became president of the Northampton Institute for Savings. He died in 1931. McCarthy was a very active developer speculating in land in many of the Connecticut River Valley towns: Easthampton, Northampton, Amherst, Hatfield and other towns. A Northampton resident at 117 South Street with his wife Anna, he was responsible for much of the land development on Crescent Street, in both Florence and Leeds as well. After Tyler’s house was taken down, the lots sold within a few years. The first to sell was Lot 1 of 3 Tyler Place and it was sold to Joseph Huber in 1929. Joseph and Jean Huber were Northampton residents renting a house in Roe Street. Though they were the first to buy a lot, they were the last to build on the new street, their house going up in 1932. Joseph Huber began as a sales manager with the Pro- phy-lactic Brush Company in Northampton and rose to become vice president of the company. The company played an important role in Northampton’s industrial history and employed many people over the course of its operations. The Hubers had two children, Joseph and Betty and were in the house through 1958. Joseph Huber died in 1991 in Hartford, Connecticut at age 104. The house was next owned by Margot and Osborne Griggs by 1960. Osborne Griggs was president and treasurer of the Coca Cola Bottling Company of Northampton which was located on King Street. The Griggs had a son Alfred. The development of Tyler Court and its residents is representative of much of the residential composition of the center of Northampton. From large estates on Prospect Street at the end of the 19th century the center was gradually adding new streets with smaller lots in the first decades of the 19th century, although residents remained largely a mix of company owners, educators, and retired or independently wealthy individuals. The concentration of housing on smaller lots was an acceptable change after World War I when the population increased and the concept of the garden suburb grew more common. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [3 TYLER COURT] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2461 U.S. Federal Censuses, 1910-1930. Northampton Directories, 1900-1959. Hampshire County Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 13 Page 71A, 1929; Deed Book 849, page 33, 1928; Book 853, page 296, 1929. Hampshire Gazette, 1931, Nov.4, 5, 14. Hampshire County Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 13, Page 71A. Massachusetts Historical Commission Community Property Address State Archives Facility 220 Morrissey Boulevard Northampton 3 Tyler Court Boston, Massachusetts 02125 Area(s) Form No. NTH.2461 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 historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side streets laid out from Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of the development of Northampton from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for attendance at Smith College, and the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a shift from gentlemen’s estates to accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers. According to criterion C this district would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles are all well-represented within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time.