Lyman Road 48.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 39A-058 Easthampton NTH.1088 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 48 Lyman Road Historic
Name: Thomas H. Todd House Uses: Present: Single family residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: 1902-1905 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: Stone Wall/Trim: Stucco & wood shingle Roof: Asphalt shingle Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Decorative celestrial porch
frieze, circa 2000s Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.44 acres acres Setting: House among other stately single family or former single family homes in a well-established
residential neighborhood, which contains mature trees throughout.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [48 LYMAN ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1088 __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-and-a-half story Queen Anne Style home under a front gable roof with matching shallow
cross gables on the east and west elevations for a T-shaped plan. The roof eaves technically make partial returns, but the cornice continues across the front gable creating a pediment.
A three part window in the gable field has a straight lintel with crown molding. The first floor of the home is stucco clad while the second story and third stories are shingle clad.
On the first floor, there is a three sided bay at the southeastern corner of the front façade and one the eastern façade, creating a jetty-like suspension for the upper two stories.
The cornice lines, wall cladding, and jetty serve to visually separate the three levels of home. Across the southwestern corner of the front façade is a partial width stacked porch that
wraps around to the western elevation. Under the porch are two sets of small, paired windows with diamond paned lights. The porch has square pilasters, railing with square balusters
and decorative arched tracery, and a decorative celestial patterned frieze—a modern alteration. Above the front entry porch is an enclosed second story porch with metal hipped roof.
Windows on the home have flat stock surrounds and have 2/2 replacement sash windows. A single brick chimney rests in the center of the home along the ridge. On the eastern elevation
of the home is a one-story story addition which appears to have been originally constructed as a sun porch, but has since been enclosed. Property includes a circa 1940s garage. 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 early 20th century house was built for Thomas Todd, co-owner of Todd & Co., a dry and fancy goods concern on Main St. Mr. Todd bought a portion
of Silas Cooley's homestead, formerly Alfred Starkweather's house at 36 Lyman Road, in 1902. This is one of the later houses on the street, originally known as High St, and laid out
in 1870 by Charles G. and Alfred Starkweather. The houses built on the north side of the street backup to the Fort Hill estate, Northampton's most exclusive residential tract. Fort Hill
is a river terrace which is surrounded on three sides by the old bed of the Mill River.” Richard Wagner and Ruth Folchman purchased the house in 1994. The two completed renovations to
the second and third floors of the house in the mid 2000s. 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.
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