Chapel Street 37.5.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):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38A-15 Easthampton NTH.2178 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 37 ½ Chapel Street Historic Name:
Northampton Grange Uses: Present: Church Original: Chapel Date of Construction: 1871 Source: Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.92 acres Setting: Set on a corner lot, the building faces south on a busy state highway.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [37 ½ Chapel St.] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2178 _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 small Italianate style chapel sided in clapboard and set on high brick foundations. It
has a front-gable roof and an enclosed entry vestibule or narthex. The roof has brackets with circular cut-outs at its wide eaves and one small rose window in its gable field. Windows
along the sides of the building are arched and there are four on each elevation, and two on the south façade flanking the vestibule. The vestibule has smaller brackets supporting its
eaves and an arched entry with double leaf doors beneath a fanlight. At the peak of the south gable is a pedimented open structure – close to an aedicula in form – and intended to hold
either a statue or to be sufficient as an architectural spire. Its steeply pitched roof is also bracketed. This building is the model of a small and modest Italianate Chapel. 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 Form B of 1975, “The Hospital Hill Chapel was designed and built in 1871; local architect Wm. F. Pratt supplied the plans for the chapel building. Used by members
of the First Church downtown and by residents of Hospital Hill working at the State Hospital, the Chapel was an active site of worship until 1930. After that time, Smith College students
conducted a mission in the old chapel. In 1955 the Patrons of Husbandry (Grange) #138 acquired the building for a meeting place.” Its design was taken from a 19th c. pattern book. The
Grange sold the building to the Resurrection Life Ministries in 2008-2009. 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. Daily Hampshire
Gazette, March 21, 1871.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [37 ½ Chapel St.] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2178 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 Hospital Hill Chapel is significant in Northampton history for its long and continuing use as a church for the residents
of the Hospital Hill area, which includes the former Northampton State Hospital. As a chapel, Grange Hall, Smith College building, and once again church, this building has had an association
with some the Northampton’s major institutions and their members from the third quarter quarter of the 19th century to the present. As the design work of Northampton architect William
Fenno Pratt this building is architecturally significant for the City of Northampton. Pratt was one of the most prolific and well-respected architects in the City’s history and his work
continues to contribute to its architectural importance.