Laurel Street 32.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 38A-39-001 Easthampton NTH.2179 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 32 Laurel Street Historic Name:
Hospital Hill School Uses: Present: two-family house Original: school and house Date of Construction: ca. 1860 Source: maps Style/Form: utilitarian and Cape Cod form Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick and vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Cape Cod house added to school;
windows and doors of school infilled – ca. 1930; replacement windows added; house vinyl-sided – post-1980. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.395 acres Setting:
This building is in an area of mixed 19th and 20th century housing.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [32 Laurel Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2179 ___ 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 building made up of two sections. The older section is a one-and-a-half story brick building
under a side-gable roof. It is six bays wide and two bays deep and is east-facing. On its south elevation is an east-facing Cape Cod form house under a side-gable roof. This portion
of the house is vinyl-sided and has an enclosed porch across its east façade and a full-width, shed-roof dormer across its east roof. The former schoolhouse has had its windows and possibly
its original entries in-filled to accommodate smaller sash and a door. The building has a corbelled brick cornice at its eaves and a single interior chimney. Sash is metal replacement
in both sections of the house. The Cape Cod section of the house makes eaves returns and appears behind its enclosed porch to be three to five bays wide. 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, “This small brick building was originally built as a schoolhouse for the inhabitants of ‘Hospital Hill’. This area, named after the nearby Northampton State Hospital
was centered around the 18th century ‘highway’ to Westhampton. After the hospital was established in the early 1850s the area grew substantially and a school was needed. This served
as the school for at least until 1930, and some time afterwards was transformed into a variety store, its present use.” 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.