Elm Street 137.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-167 Easthampton NTH.649 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 137 Elm Street Historic Name: Charles
P. Huntington House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1841 Source: Professor Larkin Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): North wings added, ca. 1980. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.723 acres Setting: This house sits on a raised lot lot with a view to the south and the Smith College campus.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [137 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.649 ___ 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 Huntington House is an Italianate style house that is modeled after a rural Italian villa as
distinct from a city palazzo. It is U-shaped in plan with projecting wings at each end of a hipped roof block. The center of the U is filled with an open arcaded porch on paneled posts,
three bays wide. The west wing has a full-length window on its first floor; the east wing has a three-sided bay window. Windows are paired at the second floor, which is characteristic
of the Italianate style. Both wings have low-pitched hipped roofs that aim to emulate the flat roofs of Italian villas. Sash in the house is 1/1. On the north side of the house are one-and
two-story wings of more recent date. 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 1970: “This Mediterranean-type villa was erected in 1841 by Hadley-born Charles P. Huntington on land bought
from Edward Clark. Huntington was later appointed justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and moved to Boston. In 1856, Reverend William Silsbee, pastor of the Unitarian Church, purchased
it. In 1864, the Merritt Clarks bought it and his family lived in the house for 46 years until the death of Mary Clark (a niece of Merritt) in 1939. It was then for some years the home
of owners Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Grover until purchased by the Mary A. Burnham School in 1965. It is now owned and occupied by the family of Richard Shea.” 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.