Barrett Place 4.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: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
October 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-87 Easthampton NTH.614 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 4 Barrett Place Historic Name: Howard
Patch House Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1910-1915 Source: atlases Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage:
0.199 (Northampton Assessors) Setting: The house is placed on a corner lot behind a brick embankment. It is the first house on a dead-end street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [4 Barrett Place] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.614 __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. There are eight houses on Barrett Place and six of them are variations of the Colonial Revival
style. The Howard Patch House is two-and-a-half stories in height beneath a slate-covered, side-gable roof. It is a 20th century interpretation of an 18th century Federal style house
with enlarged proportions and new details. The house is a very wide five bays and two bays deep. It has an an entry hood in the center bay that is barrel vaulted and supported on four
elaborately carved consoles – a non-Colonial feature that yet derives from classical architecture. A sunburst is carved in the field of the barrel vault. The entry is flanked by sidelights
that have double rows of lights rather than single – a feature often found in 18th century Berkshire County. The clapboard-sided house has a center chimney and a second interior chimney
in the main block. A two-and-a-half story ell on the south elevation has an end wall chimney. The house has porches on both its east and west elevations. The porch on the west is two-story,
screened on the second floor perhaps as a sleeping porch, open on the first, and supported on Doric columns. The porch on the east is one-story in height and it, too, has large Doric
column supports. Windows in the house have crown molding lintels and sash is replacement 1/1 vinyl. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations
with local (or 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 H. R. Hinckley’s estate (known as the Manse). It is a short, dead-end street with eight houses. These are predominantly “Colonial” in character. The house appears
on the 1915 atlas and was the first to be built on the street. The first known owner and occupant was Howard Patch, an associate professor of English at Smith College, who was listed
here in the 1922 and 1930 directories.” 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] [4 Barrett Place] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.614 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 Patch 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 educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years
to the present. Howard Patch as a Smith College professor is representative of the residents who helped build the district. 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 fine Colonial Revival style house was probably architect-designed and deserves further
research. The potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.