Prospect Street 17.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, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-222 Easthampton NTH.686 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 17 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Lamont House Uses: Present: Dormitory Original: Dormitory Date of Construction: 1955 Source: Smith College Archives Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: William and Geoffrey
Platt, architects Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick, limestone Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Addition on north east,
n.d. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 2.01 acres Setting: Lamont House occupies a large lot that slopes down to the east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [17 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.686 ___ 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. Lamont House is a four-story, brick building with limestone trim beneath a slate hipped roof. A
large dormitory, it is 11 bays long and five bays deep and has a center entry on its west façade that is a flat-roofed portico on large piers with composite capitals. The portico has
respondent pilasters. The west façade has shallow pavilions at each end breaking up the long plane of the façade. A limestone stringcourse separates first and second stories. First story
windows are 8/12 and the upper story windows have 8/8 sash. Lamont House is a Colonial Revival style building that is more precisely viewed as Georgian Revival with its two interior
chimneys on the roof and a broad frieze beneath the eaves. 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 1977/1979: “Both this house and Lamont Bridge were named for Florence Corliss Lamont
of the class of 1893. She received her M.A. from Columbia in 1898 and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Smith in 1952. She served as honorary chairwoman of the Smith College Counselors
in 1951 and 1952. At her death in December 1952, she bequeathed $1,200,000 to Smith College. Lamont was built on property originally owned by the Jonathan Hunt family who owned the site
of 45 Elm and thence to Prospect Street. The Edwards House which stood back from both Elm and Prospect was razed.” 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] [17 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.686 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 Round Hill Historic District. This potential historic district is significant according to
criteria A and C and would have local significance. The residential streets that cross Round Hill are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of development in Northampton
from the early 19th century (1807) through the 1950s. Residential development began on Round Hill with the establishment of gentleman’s estates but grew with schools and a resort hotel
until the 1890s when residential development increased significantly. From the 1890s through the 1950s (1959 McAlister Infirmary) Round Hill became home to Northampton’s wealthy and
to the Clarke School for the Deaf. Architecturally this area of Northampton is significant for the range of residential architectural styles including the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival,
and for its institutional buildings in the French Second Empire, through High Victorian Gothic and Colonial Revival styles ending with the American International style. The potential
district has integrity of workmanship, design, feeling, association, and materials.