Bedford Terrace 26.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): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number
USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-227 Easthampton NTH.691 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 26 Bedford Terrace Historic Name: Maria Warner House Uses: Present:
11-room college residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1897 Source: Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage:
0.198 Acres Setting: This south-facing house is set back from the street on a lot that slopes down to the east. Trees and shrubbery surround it on three sides.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [26 BEDFORD TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.691 _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 an elegant version of the Colonial Revival style as it has a pair of rounded bays at each
side of the main entrance. The house is two-and-a-half stories in height under a truncated hipped roof, as at 32 Bedford Terrace. The Colonial Revival style house is entered beneath
a porch on fluted Doric columns. The porch is topped by a balustrade with narrow, square balusters. The center door is flanked by two high windows rather than sidelights. At the second
floor level the two center bays are arched windows with 1/1 sash. Above them, on the roof is a pedimented dormer that contains a row of four small, 1/1 windows. The rounded bays contain
on the first floor a three-part window and at the second floor level a pair of 1/1 windows. 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 is one of four large Colonial Revival style
residences built on Bedford Terrace around the turn of the century. This one was built for Maria Warner in 1897 at a cost of $8000.” The house in 1910 was occupied by Annie F. Akin,
her widowed sister Martha and three servants. Annie was a college matron and the three servants were a cook, a waitress and a chambermaid for a college residence. They were the only
residents of the the house according to the census suggesting that this was a Smith College house for its staff who worked for a nearby dormitory. By 1937, however, the building was
an apartment house with 11 tenants, both men and women, whose occupations were varied and not college-related. 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. Hampshire Daily Gazette, November 30, 1895. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton
and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895. Springfield Daily Republican, December 28, 1895, p. 4. 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] [26 BEDFORD TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.691 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 Warner House would contribute to a potential Bedford Terrace historic district that developed after the street was
laid out at the end of the 19th century with houses built by well-to-do merchants, educators and independently wealthy residents. Many of the first owners were single women several of
whom were professional academicians and physicians . The street is significant for its long association with Smith College as early on it became a part of the Smith College housing plan
when the school had insufficient on-campus housing and a growing student body. At the end of the 19th century the houses became student boarding houses, dormitory residences or single
rooms were rented out. The Bedford Terrace association with Smith College grew even stronger with construction of two large-scale dormitories on the street. Architecturally the potential
historic district is significant for the fine examples of the Colonial Revival style that line its western side and for the architect-designed Revival style dormitories on its eastern
side. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.