Lyman Road 49.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-089 Easthampton NTH.1015 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 49 Lyman Road Historic
Name: Charles & Martha Starkweather House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1788 Source: Photographic Collection at Forbes
Library Style/Form: Federal Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
-Side porch added & screened -Side screened porch removed and then completely rebuilt in 2002 Condition: good Moved: no | | yes | x | Date 1870 Acreage: 0.23 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] [49 LYMAN ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1015 _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 Federal style house under a front gable roof. This house was moved
here from South Street in 1870. Form B of 1980 stated that the house was originally sited in this manner when it was located on South Street—with the gable frontward to the street—as
shown in an early photograph. The house is three bays wide and two bays deep. The front gable is pedimented and has a demi lunette in the gable field with decorative keystone. The full-width
front porch has a low pitched hipped roof, square pilasters, railing with square balusters. The front entry door is framed by square pilasters and features a doubles transom. The porch
was likely added after the house was moved in 1870, but this should be confirmed. A side porch on the eastern elevation was added after the 1870s, but this porch was removed in the 2000s
and completely rebuilt to its current enclosed form in 2002. The house is clapboard and now has a brick foundation due to it being moved in 1870. Windows on the home were replaced in
the 1980s, but kept the characteristic 12/12 sash. Three additions have been added to rear of the home. The first two are two-stories in height and the third is a very shallow one-story
addition. There is brick chimney along the ridge line in the center of the main block of the home. 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 house originally stood on South
Street on the northeast side where Lyman Road now joins the street. Haynes Kingsley, a member of the family that settled on South Street in 1739, owned land in this area. His daughter
Martha married Charles Starkweather in 1781, and her father had this house built in 1788 for them. Charles owned and operated a gristmill and sawmill on the banks of the Mill River off
of Clark Avenue. The homestead passed to the son, Haynes Kingsley Starkweather, and at his death to his son, Charles G. Starkweather. Charles and his brother Alfred subdivided the homestead
for residential development, and opened up High Street (now Lyman Road) in 1870. Their grandfather’s house was moved to its present location at that time. Alfred had a new house built
for himself on High Street (Lyman Road), while Charles G. resided on South Street in the house of his great-great-grandfather, Haynes Kingsley (this circa 1750 house was taken down in
1788).” Agnes Howland owned home in 1980s. Earl T. Billingsley bought the house in 1998. 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. Forbes
Library photographic collection, “Starkweather House” Antiquities, Historicals and Graduates of Northampton, Rev Solomon Clark, 1882.