Lyman Road 36.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38B-052 Easthampton NTH.2194 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 36 Lyman Road Historic
Name: Alfred Starkweather House Uses: Present: Four-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: circa 1870 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Asphalt shingle Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Circa 1925 garage Major Alterations (with dates):
Southern elevation windows covered pre-1980 Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.52 0.52 acres Setting: House on a corner lot that sits back from the road. House among
other stately single family or former single family homes. Residential neighborhood contains mature trees throughout.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [36 LYMAN ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2194 __X_ 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 two-story Italianate style house with a gable front and wing plan. Extending off the
eastern end of the main block of the house is a two story rear ell addition with minimal stylistic features. The main block of the house has wide overhanging eaves that are supported
by paired brackets, which are characteristic of the Italianate style. In the angle between the gable front and wing is a low-pitched one-story porch that is supported by square posts
on pedestals. The front entry door is located under this porch and the door has characteristic double glazed arches. The front façade of the home has a two-story bay with arched 2/2
sash windows. All windows on the home are 2/2 sash, but are hidden by vinyl storm windows. Windows on the main block of the house feature a full entablature while the windows on the
rear ell additions have simple flat stock surrounds. On the southern elevation of the home is a one-story three sided bay. Two of the windows on the southern elevation were covered over
prior to 1980, but the window surrounds remain. The wide frieze beneath the eaves contains attic grilles. The house has two brick chimneys on the main block of the house. The clapboard
sided house rests on a brick foundation and is topped by an asphalt roof. 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, “The Starkweather family first settled on South Street in 1797. Charles
Starweather owned and operated a sawmill and gristmill on Clark Ave, and was chosen a selectmen in 1803. His son Haynes K., a framer, continued on the homestead until his death in 1866.
At this time, Haynes tow sons, Charles and Alfred, decided to subdivide the homestead, which stretched easterly from South Street to the brow of the old Mill River terrace into the meadows.
High Street (now known as Lyman Road) was laid out from South Street easterly to the brow of the terrace. Alfred Starkweather chose a lot on the north side, at a dog-leg in the street,
thus his house is prominently sited at the foot of the first leg of the street.” 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 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 365-P.325, 339-199, 254-277 Northampton Directory: 1873-74 Antiquities, Historicals and Graduates of Northampton, Rev Solomon Clark, 1882 , page 167 Daily Hampshire Gazette,
August 2, 1902.