Elm Street 76.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-251 Easthampton NTH.707 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 76 Elm Street Historic Name: Elizabeth
Hopkins House Uses: Present: College offices and apartment Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1889 Source: Deeds Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: random granite Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes
| | Date Acreage: 0.129 acres Setting: This house is part of the Smith College campus.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [76 ELM STREET ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.707 ___ 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 one of a large number of Queen Anne style buildings on Elm Street. It is a two-and-a-half
story house that is gable-and-wing in form. The house is clapboard-sided on the first floor and shingled on the second floor. The front-gabled section of the house at the first floor
on the north façade has an oval-shaped bay window of one-story that has a shingled base beneath a band of windows whose corner sash is also rounded. Shingles that curve around the bay
suggest the designer of the house was familiar with the Shingle Style. This section of the house also has on its roof two eye-brow windows that were popular in the Shingle Style. The
one-and-a-half story wing, under its steeply pitched roof has a porch on posts linked by slightly rounded arches. It is four bays wide and has a wide band of copper at its roof edge.
On the roof is a Queen Anne style polygonal dormer adjacent to a single hipped dormer in a deliberate asymmetry. There is Queen Anne style sash in the dormer with multiple lights around
a center pane. 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: “Miss Elizabeth Hopkins was the revered Head of Dewey House from 1875 to 1890, the first Head of House at Smith College. In 1889, Miss
Hopkins purchased a strip of land 50ft by 100ft from Miss Lydia Tucker, who owned property at 84 Elm Street, adding triangular pieces from abutting properties to align the property with
Elm Street. It was probably in that year that she built the house. She willed the property to her friend Eleanor Cushing who was professor of Mathematics at Smith College. Miss Cushing
owned and occupied the house from 1897 to 1922, when she sold it to Smith College. 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. Register
of Deeds, Bk. 423-P.23, Bk.781-P.431