Elm Street 96.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-248 Easthampton NTH.705 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 96 Elm Street Historic Name: Haven
House Uses: Present: Smith College dormitory Original: single-family house Date of Construction: c. 1865; 1902 Source: Smith College archives Style/Form: Italianate and Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: R. and S. Skinner, architects (1902) Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard, flushboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): Building extended ca. 1902. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | | Date Acreage: 0.868 acres Setting: Haven House sits beside the large student center
and is part of the Smith College campus.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [96 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. 705 ___ 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-story building under a hipped roof that is three bays wide and fourteen bays deep
for a long, rectangular plan. Stylistically, the house is a combination of Italianate and Colonial Revival styles. The earlier portion of the building, closer to the street, is clapboard-sided
on the first two stories and flushboard sided for the third story where molding-framed panels alternate between windows. The house that Charles Kingsley built ca. 1865 was Italianate
in style and that is the front section of the house with its arched-panel cornerboards, second floor paired windows of 4/4 sash under pedimented lintels and the entry with an architrave
surround framing arched-panel pilasters and double leaf doors. The doors have multiple paned stained glass lights and a stained glass transom above. It is likely that the third floor
was added at the time that the building was extended ten bays to become a dormitory. The third floor’s paneled bays between windows are an unusual Colonial Revival feature in the region.
One other example of this architectural feature exists in the nearby town of Williamsburg. The flushboard third story continues on the extension that includes a recessed side porch in
Colonial Revival style on the east elevation. The recessed porch has four colossal Doric columns and respondent pilasters at the ends. The columns rest on paneled pedestals and there
are ornamental railings at each of the two stories. A balustrade tops the porch with urn ornaments at the third floor level. A simpler porch crosses the north façade. It rests on posts
that are linked by a sinuous arch that is both bracket and flange. On the west elevation a three-sided bay window is located in the older section of the building while a square bay window,
corner porch, transverse gable bay and shed roof porch all add to the complexity of the extended section of the building on that elevation. 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 1980:
“In 1863, Charles Kingsley, a Main St. druggist acquired an acre of land. Soon thereafter he had his large residence built on this site. After Kingsley’s death his son maintained this
property until 1899 when he sold it to Smith College in 1899. A few years later, in 1902, at a cost of $25,000 the homestead was remodeled and adapted for student living. It was named
by the College for Elizabeth Appleton Haven who had left the College a large bequest. Although not a resident of Northampton, she had graduated from the 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 521-P.263, 418-19 and 125, 213-270, 163-225.