Elm Street 138.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-244 Easthampton NTH.700 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Smith College Campus Address: 138 Elm Street
Historic Name: J. C. Ward House Uses: Present: Smith College Faculty Offices Original: Single-family Residence Date of Construction: 1865-1871 Source: Registry of Deeds, 228.385, 283,369.
Style/Form: Stick Style Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, vertical boarding Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major
Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.445 acres Setting: This house is one in a row of similarly-dated and styled 19th century houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [138 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. 701 ___ 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 building was designed in the pure Stick Style, a style that did not last long, but which added
many decorative architectural features to the vocabulary of the Queen Anne style that followed. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a steeply pitched, side-gable roof with a tall,
clustered chimney at its center. The building has a two-and-a-half story ell on its south elevation elevation and a transverse gable bay centered on its north façade that rests on a
three-sided, hipped roof porch. All the gables of the main block and the transverse bay are ornamented with picket-fence siding and in their gables are King Post trusses – both features
often found in the Stick Style. Other elements that defined the style are the stringcourses, beltcourses and paneling that intended to suggest on the exterior of the building the structural
members of plates, sills and braces that made up its interior. Unadorned wide eaves are supported at their corners by carved consoles. On the west elevation is a three-sided bay windows
stacked above a rectangular bay and on the east elevation is a two-story bay window. 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 the Form B of 1975, “This picturesque cottage was built for J. C.
Ward sometime between 1865 and 1871. Ward purchased the 66 acre tract known as “Paradise” for $9,500 in 1865; the tract was developed by Ward over the second half of the century. Ward
conveyed a parcel of land to E. Hamlin in June, 1871 with ”the two story cottage building erected on said lot.” Half a dozen cottages were built at this period on the perimeter of Paradise
Pond. It seems unlikely that W. F. Pratt designed this cottage and its neighbor. While the Gazette mentions that Pratt is designing a cottage at Paradise for J. C. Ward in 1866, this
residence probably stood on Paradise Road.” 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.