Crescent Street 97.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-240 Easthampton NTH.340 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 97 Crescent Street Historic Name:
William Reilley House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlas and Directory Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.278 acre Setting: This is a west-facing house on a residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [99 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.340 _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 representative house of the Colonial Revival style. It is two-and-a-half stories in height
under a pyramidal hipped roof. As was common during the early years of the 20th century, the house is only two bays wide and two bays deep, but its proportions are very large so that
it is generous in its space. It has a side hall entry with a trabeated surround and sidelights adjacent to a three-part composition window at the first story, and at the second story
of the west façade it has a three-part composition window adjacent to an angled bay window that fits beneath the eaves. The roof of the house has wide eaves that are supported on brackets.
Centered on the roof on each elevation is a hipped roof dormer. A full-width porch crosses the west façade and wraps around to the south elevation, and is supported on paired, half-length,
fluted posts above shingled piers. There are respondent pilasters on the façade. Between the piers is a railing with square balusters. There is a two-story ell on the east. 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: “The house first appears on the 1915 atlas, and is owned and occupied by William Reilley, a lawyer. Crescent Street had been opened in 1886 along
the middle slopes of Round Hill and quickly became one of the most ‘aristocratic’ streets in the city.” 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. 472-P. 143
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [99 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.340 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 Reilley 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 Reilley House is a fine example of the Colonial Revival
style. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.