Dryads Green 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 31A-266 Easthampton NTH.571 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 55 Dryads Green Historic Name: Timothy
Collins House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: wood shingles Roof: wood and asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.96 acres Setting: This house occupies the last lot on a dead end street. The land slopes precipitously down to the north and the Mill River.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [55 DRYADS GREEN] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.571 _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 house is a compact version of the Colonial Revival style. It is two-and-a-half stories in
height under a steeply-pitched, gambrel roof. The house is two bays wide and two bays deep and there is a gambrel roofed ell on the rear or east for an L-shaped plan. The house is wood
shingle sided, including the lower angle of its gambrel roof. Its elevations are relatively asymmetrical. The west façade has a recessed and open corner porch whose corner support is
shingled, and on its roof is an off-center, barrel-vaulted copper dormer. Eaves make returns in the gable ends to form gambrel-shaped pediments in which on the north end is an arched
window filled with multi-paned sash. Windows elsewhere in the house have 6/6 sash. 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: “Dryads Green was opened in 1890 as part of Hammond and
Sullivan’s subdivision off of Elm Street, which also included Harrison Ave. George W. Cable, the well-known author, owned most of the lots on the southern and western sides of the street,
and either sold lots for development or had houses built on contract and sold the property later. This house first appears on the 1915 atlas and was owned and occupied by Timothy Collins.
Mr. Collins was was the local manager of the F. W. Webb Mfg. Co. and also served as an automobile agent.” 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] [55 DRYADS GREEN] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.571 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. This property would contribute to a potential historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side
streets laid out from Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district is significant
according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of the development of Northampton
from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for attendance at Smith College, and
the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a shift from gentlemen’s estates to
accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers. According to criterion C this district
would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles are all well-represented
within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time.