Elm Street 49.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.684 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: 49 Elm Street Historic
Name: Northrop 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 NY Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone, granite Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
Moved: no | | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.44 acres Setting: Located on a corner lot in an area of Elm Street where many of Smith College’s dormitories were built.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [49 ELM STREET ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.684 ___ 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 dormitory is identical to its neighbor at 47 Elm Street. It is Georgian Revival in style and
is three stories in height under a truncated hipped roof. 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 east 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: “Northrop House was built by Charles A. Rich of New York and opened in 1911. The house is named for Birdseye Grant Northrop who graduated from Yale in 1841 and from Yale
Divinity School School in 1845. He served as a pastor of the Congregational Church in Saxonville, Massachusetts for ten years, as a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, and
as a member of the Connecticut Board of Education. Japan entrusted the education of its first students in the United States to Birdseye Northrop. Like Edward Gillett, Birdseye Northrop
was named in Sophia Smith’s will as one of the original trustees of Smith College. He served in this position 1871-1898.” 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.