Elm Street 112.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-247 Easthampton NTH.704 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 112 Elm Street
Historic Name: J. H. Lyman House Uses: Present: Smith College dormitory Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1861 Source: Hampshire Gazette, 5/15/1860, 6/4/1861, 12/26/1865
Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder: William F. Pratt, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: flushboard Roof: slate, copper Outbuildings/Secondary
Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Rear ell added, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.125 acres Setting: This building is part of the Smith College
campus and is one of a number of houses on Elm Street converted to college use.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [112 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. 704 ___ 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 one of the finest examples of the Gothic Revival style in Northampton. Designed by architect
William Fenno Pratt it is a two-story house under a truncate hipped roof with wide eaves overhangs and two interior chimneys. The house is flushboard sided and is three bays wide and
two bays deep with a two-story ell on the south elevation for a T-shaped plan. The center entry to the house is a copper-covered, hipped roof portico on paired posts separated by three-point
arches. Portico railings are jigsaw-cut with Gothic ogive arches. First floor windows have label lintels over paired sashes and second floor windows in the two outer bays have paired
pointed sashes within pointed arches, giving the mullions the appearance of Gothic tracery. The center window of the second story has triple pointed arch windows in a single pointed
arch opening with the same tracery effect. Over each of the second floor windows the roof eaves rise in a peak. On the west elevation is a one-story, three-sided bay window and above
it is a triple pointed arch window in a single pointed arch opening. The two story rear ell has a hipped roof and from it extends on the west elevation a flat roofed portico on four
Doric columns. The ell also has a front-gabled pavilion with stained glass transom over a pair of stained glass windows. 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 1975: This gothic mansion
was built in 1861 for J. H. Lyman. In 1859, Lyman purchased from Samuel Hopkins the lot ‘opposite the dwelling house of said Lyman’ and a year later began building. (Lyman earlier inhabited
the 18th century Sessions House and later built a second gothic mansion on upper Elm Street.) In 1866, Lyman sold the residence to Orleana Boker for $13,000, a high figure for the period.
Later in the century, a Miss Elizabeth Maltby operated a boardinghouse for Smith College students in the residence. The house was apparently known as Maltby House at the time and this
has caused some confusion as to its original ownership. (Lafayette Malby, a prominent citizen of Northampton owned an important Greek Revival Structure on Round Hill, that house no longer
stands.)” 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, Hampshire County, 133.126, 185.110, 234.307, 305.82, 424.97,
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