Elm Street 281.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-9 Easthampton NTH.453 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 281 Elm Street Historic Name: Eddy Residence
Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1915-1920 Source: Registry of Deeds; 1915 Map of Northampton Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.68 acres Setting: Set back from the street and shaded by mature trees, this house is one of a number of Colonial Revivals in the area.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [281 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.453 ___ 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 Eddy house is among the academic Colonial Revival style houses that are found on Elm Street
and that are architect-designed carefully to interpret Colonial features. It is a two-story house under a hipped roof on which are three interior chimneys. Five bays wide and two bays
deep the house has a two-and-a-half and a one-a-half story ell on its rear or north elevation. It particularly aims to recreate the Connecticut River valley doorway, which has a broken
swan’s neck pediment over a trabeated surround of pilasters resting on high pedestals that are carved with a pattern found on Colonial houses in Deerfield, Hatfield and Hadley, among
other Connecticut River valley communities. Sash in the house is 12/12 but in openings that are 20th century sized being wider and shorter than their colonial antecedents. Window lintels
on the first floor have crown moldings. 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 Georgian Revival style residence was built on Elm Street between 1915 and 1921 when Horace
Eddy sold the recently created ‘tract with building’ to Adelaide Ramage. The 80 foot wide parcel was created from the Williams Homestead to the northwest and the Mather Homestead to
the southeast.” 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, Hampshire County, 772.411