Crescent Street 52.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-247 Easthampton NTH.345 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 52 Crescent Street Historic Name:
Mrs. Ellen Clark House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases 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: 0.314 acre Setting: This house occupies a raised lot and faces toward the east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [52 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.345 _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 stately version of the Queen Anne style combining some of the classical features of the
Colonial Revival with the more picturesque Queen Anne. It is two-and-a-half stories under a front-gable roof with a cross-gable on the south elevation and a corner angled bay on its
southeast corner. Eaves in the front-gable make full returns to form a pediment that projects in a jetty from the plane of the façade. A full-width porch crosses the east façade. It
is supported on rather large posts with solid brackets beneath a delicate spindled frieze. The porch railings have turned balusters. Entry to the porch is marked by a pediment on the
roof and in its tympanum is a floral ornament in relief. The main block of the house at the first story is three bays wide. A broad center entry has a double-leaf door with a glass upper
and paneled lower half. Adjacent to the door on the north is a single-light fixed window with an unusually low placement on the wall. At the second story the three bays become two with
a single window of 1/1 sash adjacent to a triple window composition beneath a segmental arch. The sash in this window is Queen Anne with multiple panes. First and second stories are
clapboard sided but the front-gable pediment is shingle sided and centered in its field is a three-part oriel window. Shingles curve across the window lintel in Shingle Style fashion.
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: “Crescent Street was opened in 1886, and derived its name from its path around three sides of Round Hill. The street cut along the middle slopes
of the hill and provided vistas of the Connecticut River Valley. This house first appears on the 1895 atlas, and is the property of Mrs. Ellen Clark.” 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] [52 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.345 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 Mrs. Ellen Clark 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 residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several
hundred years to the present. Architecturally the 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 Clark House is a fine example of the Queen Anne style and
is well-preserved. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.