Dryads Green 63.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-263 Easthampton NTH.567 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 63 Dryads Green Historic Name: Adelaide
Moffat House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1894 Source: Registry of Deeds, Atlas, and Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form:
Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.181 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house on a quiet, tree-shaded, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [63 DRYADS GREEN] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.567 __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 house that shares with 23 Dryads Green many of its Colonial Revival
features. It has a side gable gambrel roof with a cross-gambrel gable on the front and a two-story gambrel roofed bay on the south for a complex plan. The clapboard-sided house has a
flat-roofed entry porch in the angle between the main block and the two-story south bay. It rests on Doric columns and has Doric respondent pilasters at the façade wall. The entry itself
is topped by a half-round, leaded fanlight. The west façade is two bays wide with a rounded bay on the north and a window with 9/1 sash that is repeated elsewhere in the building. This
house has a compact plan, but manages to have a picturesque elevation with strong Colonial Revival features. 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 house was built in 1894 for
Miss Adelaide Moffat at a cost of $3000. Miss Moffat served as secretary to the author and lecturer G.W. Cable, who also lived on Dryads Green, and she was secretary for the Home Culture
Club, a program of Mr. Cable’s for Self-Improvement, which later became formalized as the People’s Institute.” 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] [63 DRYADS GREEN] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.567 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.