Elm Street John M. Greene Hall.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-252 Easthampton NTH.708 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: Elm Street Historic
Name: John M. Greene Hall Uses: Present: college assembly hall Original: college assembly hall Date of Construction: 1910 Source: Smith College archives Style/Form: Classical Revival
Architect/Builder: Charles A. Rich, Architect, NY Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.44 acres Setting: Building is is on the Smith College campus, facing north on Elm Street, Northampton’s main street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet
1 NTH.708 ___ 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. John M. Greene Hall is a Classical Revival style building. This is the style that gradually replaced the High Victorian
Gothic on the Smith College campus and is found at Seelye Hall (1899) and Neilson Library (1909). It is two-stories in height in brick with granite and brownstone trim. The main block
of the building has a truncated hipped roof. On the north it has a pedimented entrance entrance block with one-and-a-half story wings at each side. The Classical Revival temple front
has colossal brownstone fluted Ionic columns. Its tympanum has blind brownstone lobed ornament. The main block of the building is five bays long and the north has three entries in the
porch. Two outer entries have brownstone architrave surround with entablatures over them and the center entry is double wide with an architrave surround and crowning entablature topped
by a blind brownstone arch. Brownstone forms a watertable, stringcourse and rondels in the frieze. 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 the Form B of 1977,”Funded in part by an anonymous
friend of the College and by John D. Rockefeller, the building was dedicated at the ceremonial of President L. Clark Seelye’s retirement. The assembly hall was named for Rev. John M.
Greene, at whose suggestion Sophia Smith acted in founding Smith College. Completed in 1910, John M. Greene Hall contains Smith College’s largest interior assembly space, with a seating
capacity of 2,225. Chas. A. Rich of New York designed the red brick and brownstone structure which was built by Hurton & Hemenway of Boston.” Charles Rich also designed the two dormitories
across Elm Street, 47 and 49 Elm Street, known as Northrop House and Gillett House, in the Georgian Revival style. 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.