Elm Street 275.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-10 Easthampton NTH.454 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 275 Elm Street Historic Name: Mather
House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1882 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, 8/29/1882 Style/Form: High Victorian Gothic/Jacobean
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone, shingles Roof: slate, copper Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.939 acres Setting: This house is set back from the street behind a wrought iron fence with gate posts at its drive.
It has a specimen maple tree in its front yard.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [275 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.454 ___ 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 one of the most fanciful of the High Victorian Gothic houses in Northampton and is exceedingly-well
maintained. It is a brick, two-and-a-half story house with a hipped roof from which projects a three-story cross gable with a Jacobean parapet roof and a polygonal tower under a slate
roof. In the angle of the tower and the cross-gable is a hipped roof porch with a shingled pediment entry. A rounded bay is located at the northeast corner of the main block of the house.
There is a two-story ell and open porch on the rear. The house is decorated with brownstone in a beltcourse, a frieze beneath the eaves, and at the window lintels. It has two tall interior
chimneys. With its studied asymmetry, varied forms and exterior materials, this building finely exemplifies its style. 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 1976: “This large and well
built brick residence was erected in 1882 for John L. Mather, a local mason and contractor. Mather had various commissions to build foundations for public buildings and in 1880, did
the stonework on the Williston mansion on Round Hill.” 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.