A-MyrtleNRCRIT.pdf
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. The Smith College President’s House would be individually eligible for the National Register as home from 1920 to the present to a succession
of educational leaders of this nationally important women’s college including William Allan Neilson (1917-1939), Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (1939-40), Herbert Davis (1940-1949), Benjamin
Fletcher Wright (1949-1959), Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1959-1975), and Jill Kerr Conway (1975-1985). Architecturally the house is significant as a high style expression of the Georgian
Revival style and example of the work of Boston architect John Ames (1871-1954) who was to go go on to design the Quadrangle complex for Smith College within the firm of Ames, Putnam
and Dodge. The Smith College campus as a whole may be considered eligible for the Register as an historic district, and if that were to occur, the President’s House would contribute
to that district.