Lyman Road 69.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-063 Easthampton NTH.1091 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 69 Lyman Road Historic
Name: Edwin Cook House Uses: Present: Single family home Original: Single family home Date of Construction: 1883-1884 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Metal Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): -Part of porch enclosed before 1980 in the 20th
century Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.16 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] [69 LYMAN ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1091 _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 Italianate style home with a front gable and cross gable on western
elevation. The house is framed by slim pilasters and overhanging eaves that make partial returns. The house features a one story porch that wraps around to the shallow two-story side
wing on the western elevation. Typical of the Italianate style, the porch has low-pitched hipped roof and square posts with impost blocks and pedestals. The balustrade has cut-out pattern
more seen on Queen Anne style homes so this balustrade may have been a later addition. The front entry, which has partial length sidelights, was enclosed at some point in the 20th century.
Windows on the home are replacements with one over one sashes. Windows all have architrave surrounds and projecting lintels. Both gable fields have arched windows and hooded lintels.
The house has a large two-story ell on its rear southern elevation. There is one large brick chimney along the ridgeline of the 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 house was built in 1883-84 for Edwin Cook, who was employed by W.F. Prindle, a “stove dealer, plumber, steam and gas fitter.” Mr. Cook obtained lot G of Alfred and Charles G. Starkweather’s
subdivision plan for High Street (now Lyman Road). The Starkweather’s subdivided their family’s homestead, which began on South Street and ran easterly over the brow of the Mill River
terrace and into the meadows. The eastern half of the homestead became developed with about 15 substantial single family homes. The setting was mostly wooded and almost rural in character.
This quality was maintained by the undeveloped quality of the meadows and the Fort Hill Estate, Northampton’s most exclusive residential tract, which abutted the High Street Plan on
the north.” House was converted to a two-family residence at some point. It was converted back to a single-family residence in 1995 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 376-p.488, 275-100 Northampton Directory: 1885-86