Crescent Street 136.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 24D-296 Easthampton NTH.355 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 136 Crescent Street Historic Name:
Albert Dyer House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1904 Source: Atlas, Directory & Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form:
Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl, wood shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Vinyl siding added and some windows replaced, ca. 2000 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Date Acreage: 0.136 acre Setting: This is a north-facing house on a raised lot in
a purely residential neighborhood.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [136 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.355 _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 plan of this Colonial Revival style house is relatively simple but its elevation has been embellished
to give it a greater picturesque quality. It is a two-story house under a hipped roof. Being three bays wide and three bays deep, it has a simple square plan. However, it also has a
full-width porch on the north with an integral projecting pavilion supported on Colonial Revival style Doric columns. Centered above the porch is a cross-gabled bay. The bay has a front-gabled
roof whose eaves make full returns to form a pediment. At the second story the bay is angled and ornamented with scrolled consoles at the cornice. A diamond-shaped window fills the gable
field. At the first story of the north façade is a relatively narrow and unembellished entry flanked by two large, fixed-light windows with multi-paned transom lights. 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: “In 1886, Crescent Street was laid out through the old orchards and gardens of the Round Hill Hotel property. It encircled Round Hill, midway up its slopes, beginning
at the end of Henshaw Avenue, which had been laid out in the 1860’s, and extended north, west and then south to Elm Street. Development proceeded north from Henshaw Avenue, with the
section south of Round Hill substantially complete by 1895. During the first three decades of the 20th century, the next two sections, south to Bancroft Road and then south to Elm Street,
were developed. The house originally was built in 1904 for Albert Dyer, an employee of the Kingsley Box and Paper Company, at a cost of $3000. This house first appears on the 1915 atlas
and was occupied by the Curran family, a member of which still owns the property. John and William Curran were Main Street grocers and Frances, Mary and Catherine Curran were listed
as clerks.” 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] [136 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.355 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 Dyer 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. Architecturally it is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles
of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Dyer House is a good example of the Colonial Revival style and is well-preserved.
This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.