Crescent Street 204.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 24C-183 Easthampton NTH.319 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 204 Crescent Street Historic Name:
George Johnson House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.161 acre Setting: This house faces northwest as the street curves. It is a residential street that rises on its eastern side.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [204 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.319 __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 two-and-a-half story Queen Anne style house under a side-gable roof with a cross-gable
on the front for an L-shaped plan. In the angle of the two sections of the house is a three-story square tower under a pyramidal, hipped roof. This is a not-uncommon plan and elevation
for a number of Queen Anne style houses in Northampton and includes its neighbor at 176 Crescent Street. The house is clapboard sided on the first story and shingle sided on the upper
two stories and the tower in two different patterns. The gable eaves in both sections of the house project over their attic windows. Adding to the complexity of this house’s interior
volume is a two-story oriel window on the north elevation and a three-story bay on the south elevation. The house has a full-width porch across its west façade. It is supported by turned
posts with solid brackets. The house is sided with clapboards on the first story and shingles of different profiles on the second story and attic level, and the house has been painted
in an historically appropriate color scheme that highlights its varying exterior materials in a picturesque manner. 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 two
virtually identical, late-Victorian houses on Crescent Street built c. 1890. Crescent Street had been laid out in 1886 along the middle slops of Round Hill, through the estate of the
Round Hill Hotel. The 1895 atlas shows this house and lists George Johnson, owner of a Pleasant Street furniture and stove stores, as the owner.” 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] [204 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.319 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 Johnson 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 the potential historic district 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 Johnson House is a fine example of the Queen Anne style
and represents a form that was repeated more than once in Northampton. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.