Elm Street 219.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-36 Easthampton NTH.465 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 219 Elm Street Historic Name: D. R.
Clark House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1861 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, 8/6/1861 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
William F. Pratt, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with
dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.253 acres Setting: This south-facing house occupies a corner lot in a neighborhood of mid-late 19th century homes.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [219 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.465 ___ 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. The D. R. Clark House is a two-story, brick, Italianate style house. It has a flat roof with wide
boxed eaves that are supported on brackets and has a wide frieze below the eaves. It is five bays wide and three bays deep and the windows have brownstone lintels. The center entry to
the house is reached through a flat-roofed porch on chamfered posts with bracketed eaves. The porch posts are linked by a railing that is jigsaw cut into an Italianate arched pattern.
Sash in the house is 6/6. There is a two-story bay on the northeast corner of the house and on the west elevation is a secondary, corner porch on posts with braces at its eaves. 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 1975: “This brick residence in the bracketed style was designed by William F. Pratt for D.R. Clark in 1861. Architect Pratt received a commission from C.M.
Kinney in 1861 and planned for Kinney a similar brick cottage located at the intersection of North Elm and Prospect Streets.” 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.