Elm Street 380.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-42 Easthampton NTH.279 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 380 Elm Street Historic Name: Northampton
High School Uses: Present: High School Building Original: High School Building Date of Construction: 1939-40; addition-1960 Source: City Reports, 1938; Date block on building. Style/Form:
Art Deco and Modernistic Architect/Builder: J. Williams Beal Sons, Builder Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: brick, limestone, slate Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary
Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2000 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 24.96 acres Setting: School fronts on Elm Street and a small
triangular island with Childs Park on the north and playing fields to the south. This is primarily a residential neighborhood.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [380 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.279 ___ 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. Northampton High School’s 1940 building, its main block, is three stories in height under a flat
roof and is Art Deco in style. It is thirteen bays long with a center, three-bay, limestone entry block rising three stories in height, outer bay, two-story limestone-framed secondary
entries, and eight bays of windows in between. These windows are separated by two-story high limestone piers that stop short of the third story, so that the third story windows become
two bands of fenestration at each side of the center entry – an attic level. Between the first two stories and the third story in the brick spandrels are Art Deco ironwork grilles and
Art Deco geometric flutes are carved into the limestone piers. The center entry has a geometric pedimented surround with an integral date stone. The windows of first and second stories
have triple composition lights in grids of twelve and they are separated between stories by triple panels of black slate in an aluminum framework. The windows are recent replacements
whose framework is now a painted aluminum. This section of the building is nine bays deep. Additions are multiple on north, west and south and maintain the red brick and limestone trim.
Notable among them is a northwest addition of two stories, set back from the plane of the main façade, with fluted limestone piers framing a three-bay principal façade with a rounded
entry marquee. A wing with a rounded corner on the west has a large, rounded, glass block window. 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: “Northampton’s third large high school
building was built at the upper end of Elm Street in 1939. It was preceded by a Gothic Revival structure (1860’s, W. F. Pratt, now demolished) and a Classical Revival style school (1895,
Gardner, Pyne, & Gardner, now D. A. Sullivan School). When built, the new high school incorporated special foreign language, industrial arts, and social sciences classrooms; a new emphasis
was also placed on sports, with large gyms and locker rooms.” 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.