Elm Street 41.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 31B-224 Easthampton NTH.687 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 41 Elm Street Historic Name: Enos
Clark House; Eleanor Duckett House Uses: Present: dormitory Original: single-family house Date of Construction: early 19th century Source: Maps & visual evidence Style/Form: altered
Federal to Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Connected to Elijah Clark House ca. 2005 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.18 acres Setting: Building is set on a corner lot in the midst of college
dormitories and other college buildings on Northampton’s main street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [41 ELM STREET ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.687 ___ 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 Enos Clark House is now one segment of a U-shaped dormitory, having been connected to a second
house at 45 Elm Street by a new wing. This portion of the complex is a three-and-a-half story front-gable building whose roof eaves make full returns to form a pediment. The south façade
is five bays wide and is entered through a center door behind a pedimented portico on piers with arches connecting them. The building has a side porch resting on six colossal columns
with capitals outside the classical orders and ornamented with Egyptian palms rather than acanthus leaves. The building’s cornice is finely decorated with modillion blocks on its eaves
rake and above the frieze. As a Federal style house that was altered considerably during the last decade of the 19th century for school use, it is apparent that the domestically scaled
Federal house was enlarged, perhaps by the raising of its roof and the addition of the side porch, if not more. These additions brought the Federal house into a Colonial Revival style
with oversized ornamental trim, the entry portico, and a larger scale building. A wing recently constructed continues the clapboard exterior to connect to the second house at a large
new brick chimney that is set at an angle. 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) s) the owners/occupants played within the community. From Form B of 1980: “This house occupies land that first came into the Clark family about 1710. Increase Clark established
his homestead on this property at the house that formerly stood at the east corner of Bedford Terrace. His son Deacon Elijah succeeded to the homestead and lived upon the place 1730-1791.
Elijah’s youngest son, Enos was named the 27th deacon of the First Church in 1818 at the age of 39. He retained this office until 1832. At that time the Edwards Church was formed and
he was chosen their first deacon, a position he held until his death in 1864. It seems probable that Enos established his homestead here on a portion of his father’s homestead in the
early 19th century. After his demise the house passed to his heirs who maintained the property until 1886. At that time the house and lot were sold to Mary L. Southwick. Mrs. Southwick
opened the house as a residence for Smith College students living outside the College. In those years it was called Southwick House. In 1916, the newly established Hampshire Bookshop
was opened on the first floor and remained in the building until 1918. It was subsequently purchased by the Burnham School which had acquired the Hunt-Lyman House at 45 Elm Street and
was for some years a part of the Burnham School complex. In 1968 the Burnham School properties were purchased by Smith College. The house was considerably remodeled and established as
the Eleanor Duckett House dormitory, named for Miss Eleanor Duckett, eminent Latin scholar and author, Smith professor 1916-1949. Smith awarded her an honorary L.H.D.; she received her
D. Litt. from Cambridge and from University of London.” 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. Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860. Registry of Deeds: Bk.
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