Elm Street 159.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-162 Easthampton NTH.644 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 159 Elm Street Historic Name: Miss
Maltby House Uses: Present: Two-family Residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1918 Source: Owner Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Karl Scott
Putnam, Architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: wide weatherboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.02 acres Setting: This house faces south and is is set back from the street on a tree-shaded lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [159 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.644 ___ 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 with a side-gable roof that is Colonial Revival in style.
It is five bays wide and three deep and has two end wall chimneys. On the front slope of the roof are three pedimented dormers and there is a Palladian window over an arched portico
on columns – all architectural features favored during the Colonial Revival period. Sash in the house is 6/9 9 on the first floor and 6/6 on the second floor. The center door has an
elliptical fanlight over its paneled door with half-length sidelights. The house is sided in wide weatherboards and its slate roof is copper-trimmed. Architect Karl Scott Putnam was
known for the archaeological approach he took to designing Colonial Revival style houses and this house is representative of the high design level he achieved. 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 1977: “The house was built for Miss Maltby by Robert Huxley in 1918. An ell in the rear was designed for servants’ quarters, and subsequently made into a garage and a separate
apartment. Miss Maltby belonged to an old Northampton-Elm Street family. The house was inherited after her death by Mrs. Edith F. Marshall, nee Maltby. Purchased from Mrs. Marshall by
William Cochran, Shaub Shaub purchased from Cochran in 1941. The land is said to have been part of the Clara Clark Tract.” It has been recorded that the architect of this house was Karl
Scott Putnam, a Smith College professor and practitioner in Northampton known for his deep study of American colonial architecture, the knowledge of which he applied to his commissions.
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: 807/333 1924, 960/72 1941