Elm Street 210.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-70 Easthampton NTH.478 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 210 Elm Street Historic Name: Elihu
House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1828 Source: Northampton Book, 1954. Style/Form: Greek Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: clapboards, flushboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.352 acres Setting: Buffered from the street by mature shrubbery, this house is in a neighborhood of many 19th c. houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [210 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.478 ___ 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 an early example of the Greek Revival style in Northampton, appearing about eight years
after the first Greek Revival style house was constructed. It is a two-story house with a front-gable roof whose eaves make full returns to create a temple-like pediment. The pediment
has a flushboard-sided tympanum meant to replicate the appearance of stone. The house is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep and has a rear two-and-a-half story ell.
There is one large center chimney on the roof ridge of the main block of the house, a carry-over from the earlier Federal period. There are two other features that persist from the Federal
style and one is the tall narrow door surround. Rather than the broad trabeated surround of the Greek Revival that was to follow, this house has a tall surround with narrow pilasters
supporting an entablature. A projecting cornice has a fine dentil row, however, suggesting a Greek Revival interest in classical forms. Window sash is also older in style being 12/12
rather than the more common and later 6/6 light configuration. 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: “Elihu Clark purchased the property in 1828 and built this house ‘soon after.’
H purchased the land from Abner Hunt and Joseph G. Cogswell. ‘The house closed most of the time during the War of the Rebellion, and only Mrs. Clark was there a part of the time. George
Watson Clark was the last member of the family to occupy it (d. 1929). He was Treasurer of Northampton, and in 1887 was accountant and poor office overseer in City Hall. In 1941, the
house belonged to J. J. Gibson, Professor at Smith College. It then became the parsonage for the First Church of Northampton until purchased by Paul Evans.” 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.