Paradise Road 58.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):
April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31A-260 Easthampton NTH.564 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 58 Paradise Road Historic Name: George
B. McCallum House Uses: Present: Six-apartment residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1912-1913 Source: Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: concrete Wall/Trim: stucco Roof: red slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 2.064 acres Setting: This house sits above Paradise Pond on the east and faces west towards Smith College dormitories.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [58 PARADISE ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.564 _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. The McCallum House is a rather grand version of the Colonial Revival style. It is a slightly asymmetrical
stucco building two-and-a-half stories in height under a red slate-covered, hipped roof. On the roof two tall, stuccoed chimneys flank a row of three, slate-covered, hipped-roof dormers.
Pilasters divide the west façade into five bays. In the center bay is a recessed entry that is sheltered by a barrel vaulted portico long enough to serve as a porte-cochere. It is supported
by massive stucco piers and has at its west end an open, arched pediment topped by a finial. Two beltcourses separate first and second stories and windows in the two stories of the west
façade are a combination of triple and quadruple sash and single windows with 6/6 sash. The house has wings on the north and south. On the north is a latticed porch on stucco posts and
on the south is a one-story wing with three slightly recessed arched bays. 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 elaborate house was built for Geoge McCallum in 1912-1913.
The building report for 1912 describes this as not yet completed, with a final cost of $60,000, making this one of the most costly residences of the turn-of-the-century period. Mr. McCallum
was treasurer of the McCallum Hosiery Company and the Northampton Silk Company at the time, and he later became president of the hosiery concern and treasurer of Smith College. In 1937,
Smith College purchased the property and converted the house to faculty apartments.” 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [58 PARADISE ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.564 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a potential historic district that would encompass the residential/institutional side
streets laid out on the south side of Elm Street in Northampton Center between Main Street on the east and the west boundary of Childs Park on the west. This potential historic district
is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. These residential residential streets are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of
the development of Northampton from the mid-19th century as a relatively affluent community that supported several private schools for young women, which prepared them after 1875 for
attendance at Smith College, and the Clarke School where deaf students were given an education that thoroughly prepared them for the hearing world. The residences in this area made a
shift from gentlemen’s estates to accommodation of the growing middle class in Northampton during the 19th century with businessmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and retired farmers.
According to criterion C this district would be significant for the range of historical styles that it includes. Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial
Revival styles are all well-represented within a landscape of individual large lots, and streetscapes that were laid out and developed at one time.