Lyman Road 57.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-059 Easthampton NTH.1089 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 57 Lyman Road Historic
Name: Chauncey H. Pierce House Uses: Present: Two family residence Original: Single family residence Date of Construction: 1871-73 (owner said 1862!) Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form:
Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date 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] [57 LYMAN ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1089 _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 home in the Italianate Style under a front gabled roof. This home
is very similar to the house at 39 Lyman Road in form but less expressive of the Italianate style in its detailing. The overhanging roof eaves make partial returns and there is wide
frieze board beneath the eaves. Cornerboards define the frame of this building. A modified palladium style style window is located in the gable field. The clapboard sided house is three
bays wide and three bays deep. On the western elevation of the home, there is a shallow two story wing to which there is a three sided oriel affixed on the first story. On the eastern
elevation of the main block of the house is a two-story bay with paneled divider between the two stories. In addition, there is a blind window in the second bay of both the first and
second stories on the eastern elevation. Window sash on the house is mostly 2/2, but they are somewhat hidden beneath storm windows. Some of the windows were replaced in 2008. Many of
the windows have splayed projecting lintels and footed sills. The house has a front porch that extends across the front façade. The porch has a low-pitched hipped roof with wide frieze
board supported by square columns with impost blocks and high pedestals, low balustrade with square balusters, and pediment marking the front entry. The front entry door features a transom
and three-quarter length sidelights. Extending off the southern end of the main block of the house is a two story rear ell addition with a one story addition on its eastern end—both
with minimal stylistic features. The one story rear addition appears to be an enclosed porch. The house rests on a brick foundation and has 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, “This was third house built on Lyman Road (originally known as High Street), which had been laid out in 1870 by brothers Charles and Alfred Starkweather through a subdivision
of their family’s South Street homestead. This street was built in two sections with a dog-leg, and early residences were built on the eastern half of the street. This half backed up
to the brow of the old Mill River terrace and provided land owners with a relatively secluded location. Chauncey Pierce was co-owner, with A Perry-Peck, of a Main St. insurance agency.
“ Jack and Susan Borocas bought the house in 1974 and lived here in 2010. 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. 310-p.457, 284-89 Northampton Directory: 1873-74