North Elm Street 60.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: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
March, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24C-33 Easthampton NTH.278 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 60 North Elm Street Historic Name:
Charles L. Sauter House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1908 Source: Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Colonial
Revival Foursquare Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick, brownstone, wood shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Porch added on west, n.d. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.409 acres Setting: This house faces east overlooking Childs Park.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [60 NORTH ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.278 ___ 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. The Sauter House is a two-and-a-half story house under a hipped roof with wide eaves. It is square
in plan being thre bays wide and three bays deep. Stylistically the house is among the vernacular variants of the Prairie style called a Foursquare. It is symmetrical, has a single-story
front porch and a centered hipped roof dormer on its roof. The Foursquare appeared in the early early years of the 20th century as an antidote to the fussiness of the Queen Anne and
many Colonial Revival style houses. Its lines aim for a horizontal appearance. In this version there are several departures from the pure style however, as the house has an angled bay
window of two stories at its northeast corner, and has Colonial Revival diamond shaped sash in its second story hall. The red brick house is trimmed in a rusticated brownstone at its
watertable, sills, and lintels. The pedimented porch has built-in settees at each side and a pediment with a latticework tympanum. It has a wide entry with a segmentally arched fanlight
that is Colonial Revival in style. Foursquares were more commonly built in frame than in masonry in Northampton, so this is a rather rare example. 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: “The first known usage of the land between Elm and North Elm Street for a brickyard occurred in the mid 19th century when Porter Nutting established a kiln here. In 1885, the firm
of Brown and Bailey took over this yard and ‘remodeled the yard at once from the old horse system to steam,’ and soon expanded the operation to sell 3,000,000 bricks a year, and employed
100 men and 10 horses in their business. Around the turn of the century, Charles Sauter joined the business as manager of the works. He later became treasurer of the company (at that
time called the Northampton Brick Co.) This house was built for Mr. Sauter in 1908 at a cost of $4000.” 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.