Elm Street 105.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 31B-199 Easthampton NTH. 671 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 105 Elm Street Historic Name: E.
Pierson House Uses: Present: Smith College dormitory-Sessions Annex Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1872 Source: Gazette, 4/22/1872, 9/2/1873 Style/Form: French
Second Empire Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: slate, asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Wing
addition ca. 2005 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.269 Setting: This building is in a row of formerly residential buildings converted to college use.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [105 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. 671 ___ 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. The E. Pierson House is a two-and-a-half story French Second Empire style house. It has a front
tower two-and-a-half stories in height containing the entry to the house – a double-leaf door with glass in the upper half and panels below. A porch crosses the south façade and wraps
to the east. It is supported on chamfered posts on high pedestals that are paired at the entry stairs. The porch apron is finely crafted with recessed lattice panels in a wood framework.
The main block of the house has a complex mansard roof with hipped dormers on the upper slope of the roof and a dormer with a bracketed, hooded lintel on the lower slope of the roof.
The main block of the house is one bay wide on the south façade and its bay consists of a large, fixed light window. The house has a north, hipped roof ell of two-and-a-half stories
connected to the main block of the house by a smaller ell that is one-and-a-half stories with its mansard roof laid in a polychromatic pattern. There is an enclosed porch at the first
floor. 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 1976: “E. Pierson ‘of Exeter, New Hampshire’ purchased a large lot at the corner of Elm and Henshaw for $5,000 in April of 1872. In September
of the following year, a notice of Pierson’s death described him as ‘the builder of the cottage at Elm and Henshaw.’” 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, 292.375