Elm Street 345.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 24C-46 Easthampton NTH.282 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 345 Elm Street Historic Name: Hugh
McConnell House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1915-1922 Source: Atlas & Directory Style/Form: Italian Renaissance Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: concrete Wall/Trim: stucco Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.236 acres Setting: House is on a corner lot with Childs Park on is northwest.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [345 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.282 ___ 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 McConnell house is a modified Italian Renaissance style with a two-story, stuccoed elevation
under a simple hipped slate roof with a center chimney and wide eaves overhangs. The roof extends at the southwest corner to shelter a two-story pavilion that contains the main entry
to the house. The entry is preceded by a shed roof portico with ¾ height stucco walls that have a row of turned balusters beneath the eaves. At the southeast corner of the five bay façade
is a one-story, screened porch on stucco piers beneath a shed roof. Between the entry portico and the screened porch is a band of five casement windows at the first floor and three windows
with 8/8 sash at the second floor level. Bands of four casement windows appear at the second floor level above the entry and the porch. The east elevation has a large recessed and glazed
opening with pairs of full-length French doors below two bays of window bands. This is the only house of its style on Elm Street. 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 1980: “This large
stucco house was built around 1920, most likely for Hugh McConnell, vice-president of Easthampton Mfg. Co., who is listed here in the 1922 directory. It occupies a prominent corner location
on Woodlawn Ave., which had been laid out in the early 20th century through a portion of the Watson estate. This estate was later donated to the city and became Childs Park.” 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.