Elm Street 289.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-8 Easthampton NTH.452 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 289 Elm Street Historic Name: W. T.
Clement House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1860-1861; remodeled 1879 Source: Registry of Deeds, 194.308; Gazette 8/7/1860 Style/Form:
French Second Empire Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.822 acres Setting: This house is set back from Elm Street in alignment with several of its neighbors.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [289 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.452 ___ 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 Clement House is one of the most stately homes on Elm Street with its large proportions and
generous scale. It is a two-and-a-half story, brick, French Second Empire house with a slate-covered mansard roof. Centered on its south façade is a four-story square tower whose roof
rests on brackets at its eaves. At first story level in the tower is the main entry to the house with a hood supported on consoles and slender colonettes. A pair of doors with herringbone
pattern panels fills the opening beneath a high glazed transom. A pair of doors with herringbone pattern panels fills the opening beneath a high glazed transom. At its second floor are
pointed arch windows, and a band of arched windows on the third floor. On the east side of the tower is a porch on posts with high pedestals and arched braces between the posts. At the
first story windows have segmentally arched openings and 2/2 sash. Pyramidal hipped dormers, unique in design, appear on all elevations. There is a cross gable bay on the east elevation
of three sides that adds to the complexity of the plan and a two story ell on the rear. 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: “The property on which this brick residence is
located was purchased by W.T. Clement, a Northampton manufacturer, from the estate of Edward Clarke. Four months after this transaction, in October 1860, the Gazette noted that Clement
was about to build a two story brick house on the north side of Elm Street, above John Hartung’s. This brick structure undoubtedly served as the base of the present residence. Clement
sold his fine estate to a Lucy Rutherford in 1873 for the princely sum of $15,500, but the Rutherfords failed to pay their mortgages and in 1879, Clement sold the property once again,
to A. S. Wood, whose family retained the property for about a decade.” 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, 928.374, 743.425, 474.114, 418.321, 393.405, 350.105, 327.370-371, 325.449, 300.485, 220.205, 194.388