Crescent Street 55.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-246 Easthampton NTH.344 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 55 Crescent Street Historic Name:
Kate and Julia Tyler House Uses: Present: Five-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1892-1893 Source: Registry of Deeds and Directory Style/Form:
Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced,
ca. 1990. Portico altered pre-1980. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.402 acre Setting: This is a west-facing house set on a ridge that slopes down towards the
east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [55 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.344 _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 large, two-and-a-half story house with a side gable roof in the Colonial Revival style.
The main block of the house is five bays wide and three bays deep but it has been enlarged considerably by cross-gable bays on the north, west, and south and by a shallow wing of one-story
on the north. The west façade has two front-gable dormers on its roof flanking a centered cross-gable dormer with an arched window opening glazed in diamond pane sash. Below it at second
floor level is an angled bay window with a triple frieze beneath its metal, angled roof. At first floor level in this center bay is a portico on posts that appears to be a 20th century
addition. There is a shallow jetty between the shingled first and second stories and window surrounds on the first story have double-frieze lintels. The multiplication of friezes at
the windows and center bay window is an unusual feature not seen elsewhere on this street or neighborhood. 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 large house was built for the
Misses Kate and Julia Tyler in 1892 at a cost of $7000. Crescent Street had been opened in 1886 and cut along the middle slopes of Round Hill, through the old orchards and gardens of
the Round Hill Hotel. This was one of the earlier houses constructed on the street, and features a sweeping vista to the east across the Connecticut River Valley.” 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 453-P. 222, 444-181
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [55 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.344 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 Tyler 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 Tyler House is a unique example of the Colonial Revival style. This potential historic
district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.