Elm Street 205.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 31A-38 Easthampton NTH.467 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 205 Elm Street Historic Name: Elmer
H. and Anna G. Copeland House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1922 Source: Owners Style/Form: Colonial Revival/Georgian
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: brick Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.602 acres Setting: House is set back from the street slightly more than its neighbors in a residential neighborhood.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [205 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.467 ___ 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 fine example of the Georgian Revival style, which is a refinement of the Colonial Revival.
It is a two-and-a-half story brick house under a side-gable roof with an end wall chimney on the west and an interior chimney behind the ridge on the east. The house is three bays wide
and three bays deep and there is a brick beltcourse between stories. Three front-gable dormers are spaced across the roof, their upper sash with curved muntins as was used during the
Georgian colonial period. The dormers are framed with pilasters in particularly fine attention to detail. Windows on the first floor have 8/8 sash and those of the second floor have
6/6 and on the first floor lintels are splayed brick. On the second floor windows are placed against the eaves. The house has an elaborate Georgian-inspired entry. A broad trabeated
door surround with a copper covered cornice has pilasters supporting an entablature with a wide frieze that has a strigil pattern. The trabeated surround encloses leaded sidelights and
a paneled door that is sheltered by a barrel-vaulted portico. The portico is pedimented and has a frieze with a repeated strigil pattern. The level of architectural detail of this house
is uncommon for Northampton and suggests an architect was responsible for its design. 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: “Land purchased in 1921 from Fanny Clark. Dr. Copeland
and family moved from their former residence at 168 Elm (house later demolished) into this house, which they built in 1922. After Dr. Copeland’s death the rooms which had been his office
were incorporated into the living rooms.” The house at 168 Elm Street was not demolished, rather it was moved to 7 College Lane. 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: 771/487 1921, 1597/548 1971