Elm Street Stoddard 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 31D-102 Easthampton NTH.764 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Northampton Center Address: Elm Street Historic
Name: Stoddard hall Uses: Present: Smith College offices and auditorium Original: College Chemistry Hall Date of Construction: 1898-1899 Source: Smith College Archives Style/Form: High
Victorian Gothic Architect/Builder: Hert & Tallant, architects, New York; 1919 expansion by Taylor & Putnam, architects, Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone,
wood, terra cotta Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): West addition, 1919. Added entry on east elevation, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved:
no | | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.02 acres Setting: This college building is part of the Smith College campus that lines both sides of Elm Street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [Elm Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet
1 NTH.764 ___ 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. Stoddard Hall is a late form of the High Victorian Gothic style, but whereas the Church of St. Mary of the Assumption
next door and the Smith College Hall across the street were High Victorian Gothic based on Italian Gothic architecture, Stoddard Hall is based on German Gothic. It is a three-story brick
and brownstone building with a front-gable parapet roof derived from German Gothic architecture. The building has transverse roof gables on east and west elevations. The south elevation
is three bays wide in a fenestration pattern of 1-4-1 on the first floor, five evenly spaced bays on the second floor, and 1-4-1 fenestration on the third floor. Stringcourses of brownstone
separate the stories and between the second and third stories there is also a terra cotta panel with “CHEMISTRY” in Gothic script in relief. The panel has on the left an engaged statue
of a male figure labeled “Metallurgy” standing on a console carved with small scholars and related figures. On the right is a hooded figure on a console whose label is “Alchemy”. The
main entry to the building is on the east façade where a slate-covered hood on carved braces shelters the wood and glass doors with medieval-inspired metalwork. Above the entry are two-story
stair windows with angled lights. Windows in the building have flat lintels and three-point arches and when paired, have brownstone label lintels. 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 1976, “Stoddard Hall was built in 1899 on land owned by Smith College across Elm Street. Stoddard Hall was named for John Tappan Stoddard, professor of physics at the College from
1878 to 1880, and was the gift of the class of 1895. The construction of the Chemistry building represented the school’s continually increasing commitment to education in the sciences.”
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.