Elm Street 309.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-4 Easthampton NTH.449 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 309 Elm Street Historic Name: C. H.
Clark House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1869-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds, 264.296, Beer’s 1873 Atlas Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no
| x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.444 acres Setting: Set on a corner lot, this house is oriented to Massasoit Street by its walkway and entry.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [309 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.449 ___ 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 C. H. Clark House is an Italianate style house that has been so well-maintained that it has
retained its decorative features as many of its contemporaries have not. It is an L-plan house with a front-gabled roof and a cross-gable wing. The overhanging eaves of the slate-covered
roof are supported on brackets with trefoil cut-outs. There is a wide frieze beneath the eaves. In the the angle between the two sections of the house is a one-story, rounded-corner
porch on chamfered posts with scroll-cut brackets at its eaves and respondent pilasters on the façade. Solid brackets support the porch’s broad eaves overhang. Whereas an Elm Street
entry was previously furnished by a south porch door, the porch has been opened and the main entry to the house is now facing Massasoit Street. Giving the house additional variety is
a three-sided bay window on the south façade as well and a bay window on the east elevation. Both have wide Italianate eaves with brackets. Windows in the house have mainly 2/2 sash
and their lintels are pedimented and bracket-supported as well. Several windows are paired in the Italianate fashion. The main entry has a pedimented surround. 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 This cottage in the bracketed style was built at the corner of Elm and Massasoit Streets between 1869 and 1873 and stands on a lot carved from a large parcel owned
by H. G. Maynard. Maynard filed the plan for 30 lots on Elm and Massasoit Streets in1869 and in that same year sold lot #1 to C. H. Clark. (The adjoining property was sold A. H. Lyman
in 1869; Lyman erected a cottage designed by W. F. Pratt on the property in 1870.) Upper Elm Street was a prestigious residential area—J. H. had built two modest mansions on the street
in 1861 and 1866—and Maynard sold the unimproved lots for $1000.” 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, 264.296