Barrett Place 12.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: PVPC Date (month /year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number
USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-100 Easthampton NTH.618 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 12 Barrett Place Historic Name: Suzan Benedict House Uses: Present:
single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1922-1930 Source: Directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation:
brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Side porch added, ca. 1980 Condition: good Moved: no | x
| yes | | Date Acreage: 0.294 acres (Northampton Assessors) Setting: House faces north on a tree-shaded residential, dead-end street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [12 BARRETT PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.618 _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. The 20th century Colonial Revival style includes houses in a range of approaches to its Colonial
forebearers from archaeological to free interpretations. The Suzan Benedict house comes closer to the archaeological form of the style as a version of the First Period houses of the
17th century. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a side-gable roof. The rear roof extends to first floor ceiling level to provide a saltbox profile and the north façade has
a jetty with pendants found in First Period houses. Further, the clapboard-sided house has a center chimney. It is three bays wide and a modern three bays deep and sash is a rather unusual
8/8. The center door has a simple molded surround and sidelights. There is a side porch entry on the east elevation and a garage in the rear yard. 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 the 1980
Form B, “Barrett Place was laid out in 1910 through a portion of the Hinckley estate, known as “the Manse”. This short, dead-end street has eight houses, most of which are in the Colonial
Revival style and were built in the 1920s. This house was built during the 1920s with the first known owner being Suzan Benedict, a professor Mathematics at Smith College.” 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 FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [12 BARRETT PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.618 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 Suzan benedict House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary
corridor, Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from
a few gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred
years to the present. Suzan Benedict is a representative of this history as a professor at Smith College. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of
late 19th century and early 20th century styles from the late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne styles to the early 20th century Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival style houses
that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.