Elm Street 47.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-221 Easthampton NTH.685 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 47 Elm Street Historic Name: Gillett
House Uses: Present: Smith College dormitory Original: Smith College dormitory Date of Construction: 1911 Source: Smith College Archives Style/Form: Georgian Revival Architect/Builder:
Charles A. Rich of New York Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone, granite Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.47 acres Setting: Set on a corner lot, this is one of a pair of dormitories that make up a part of the Smith College campus.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [47 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.685 ___ 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. This is a three-and-a-half story dormitory building designed in the Georgian Revival style. It
is one of a pair of identical, architect-designed dormitories on this corner block. It is a red brick building under a truncated hipped roof of slate with transverse gable bays at the
southeast and southwest corners and on the west and east elevations. The building has deep eaves with oversized brackets at the eaves and along the rake of the eaves. There is a row
on the south side of the roof of four hipped-roof dormers. The building’s corners have bricks laid as quoins, while brownstone watertable and belt course separate the stories in the
Georgian manner. The building has on its first floor windows of 9/6 sash; on the second and third floors are windows of 6/6 sash, and in the attic 8/8 sash. The windows have splayed
lintels with center keystones. The entry to the building is on its west façade where it is connected by an open arcade on columns to the entry to the neighboring dormitory at 49 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 1977: “Gillett House was built by Charles A. Rich and opened in 1911. The house was named for Edward Bates Gillett (1818-1899) who graduated
from Amherst in 1839, and from Harvard Law School in 1841. He was a prominent lawyer, a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1852, a member of the State Board of Education from 1872-1878,
and a trustee of Amherst College. Sophia Smith appointed him in her will. He was one of the original trustees and vice president of Smith College Board of Trustees from 1871 to 1899.
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.