Elm Street 179.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: PVPC Date (month /year): January, 2010 Assessor’s
Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31A-063-001 Easthampton NTH.2446 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 179 Elm Street Historic Name: John and Mildred Goar
House Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1954 Source: Northampton Directory Style/Form: half-Cape Cod form Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: concrete Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Vinyl replacement windows added
ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.347 Setting: This house occupies a large corner lot that is tree-shaded and bounded by a wood rail fence.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [179 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2446 ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. This property is within a local historic district. 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 one-and-a-half story half-Cape Cod form house
under a steeply pitched, side-gable roof. It is one-and-a-half stories in height, has a center chimney and is three bays wide and three bays deep for a square plan. The house has a wing
on the west elevation that is two bays wide and to which is attached a connector between the the house and its two-bay garage. The house and garage are clapboard sided, the connector
is board and batten sided. The house has an asphalt shingle roof and concrete foundations. Windows are vinyl replacements. In comparison to its neighbor at #169, this house – with the
exception of vinyl replacement windows -is a much more accurately designed Colonial Revival style Cape, while the house at #169 has been modified more closely to approximate a ranch.
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. Mildred and John Goar, Jr. built this house in 1954 as land was divided off into lots in this area of Elm Street after 1950. They had previously lived in Pittsfield
in the 1940s and moved to Northampton from North Adams where John had worked for Ralston Purina in the early 1950s. While in Northampton Goar was a division sales manager for a company
that had its headquarters in Saint Louis, Missouri. The property on which their house was built had a long and important history in Northampton. The Goar House was built on land that
had been part of the first allotment of homelots by the Northampton Proprietors in 1654 along the broad Elm Street. It was part of Lot number 2 assigned to settler Thomas Dewey. The
north side of Elm Street in this area continued to be further divided, settled, and farmed until by the time the map of 1831 was drawn Lots 1-3 that had taken up the north side of Elm
Street west of Round Hill Road had been developed into seven properties. By 1860 the lots that later were to become 169 and 179 Elm Street were part of the W. Clark, Jr. farm property.
Clark’s land passed into the ownership of J. Howe Demond in 1872 and became a retired gentleman’s estate. Demond had sold his dairy, tobacco and vegetable farm in Springfield the previous
year for $60,000, which he invested in this property. The Demond house was set back from Elm Street and in in the 1880s Crescent Street was laid out making the Demond property a corner
lot. Elm Street west of Round Hill Road had by this time had become a semi-rural mixed area of farms and large estates of the well-to-do where large homes on deep lots dominated. J.
Howe Demond died in 1909. By the 1950s the Demond house was gone and the land divided into these two lots, allowing this house and that at 169 Elm Street be constructed as 20th century
infill. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Hampshire Gazette, June 28, 1909. Trumbull, J. R. “Map of Original 17th c. Homelots”, compiled 1898 for History of Northampton, Massachusetts from
its Settlement in 1654, vol. I, Northampton, 1898. Hales, John G. surveyor. Plan of Town of Northampton, 1831, Boston. Walling, Henry F. Atlas of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New
York 1860. Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Walker, George H. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the
City of Northampton and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895. Northampton Street Directories, 1950-1960.