Lyman Road 74.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-054 Easthampton NTH.1085 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 74 Lyman Road Historic
Name: Azro T. Crossley House Uses: Present: Two-family home Original: Single family home Date of Construction: 1884-91 Source: Atlas & Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Queen Anne 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: 0.25 acres Setting: House among other stately single family or former single family family homes in a well-established residential neighborhood, which contains mature trees
throughout.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [74 LYMAN ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1085 _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 Queen Anne style home with a jerkin head roof oriented to the side. The frontward
facing roofline is broken by a wall dormer beneath which is a very shallow entrance pavilion. The gable field is ornamented with fish scale shingles and a small rondel. All of the gable
fields have small rondels and clad with fish scale shingles. A one-story, shed roof porch extends extends across the front and continues along the eastern side. The shed roof is a recent
alteration as Form B from 1980 showed this home with a hipped roof porch. The porch has square posts and stick-like brackets as well as an "H" pattern balustrade, which also appeared
on the home in 1980. One story, three-sided bays are on both the eastern and western sides of the facade. The house has elaborate paired brick chimneys along the roofline of the home.
Windows on the home are one over one sash and they have flat stock surrounds with drip edge lintels. There is a large two story flat roof former carriage house attached to the rear 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: “In 1884 Azro Crossley bought this lot on the north side of High Street (now Lyman Rd.) for $475. Mr. Crossley was a lawyer and only
lived here a short time. In 1891 he sold the house and lot.” 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
189-P 93, 439-7, 518-283. Northampton Directory: 1885-86.