Prospect Street 33.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-204 Easthampton NTH.678 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 33 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Gill Hall Uses: Present: Smith College Campus School Original: School Building Date of Construction: 1918 Source: Smith College Archives Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Richardson & Driver, Architects of Boston Exterior Material: Foundation: brick and stone Wall/Trim: stucco Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Ramp access added, ca. 2000 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.55 acres Setting: This building is located on a lot that slopes down to the east and is shared with
other college buildings.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [33 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.678 _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. Gill Hall is a Colonial Revival style, stucco building that is one and a half stories in height
under a slate-covered, gambrel roof. The building is L-shaped in plan and the rear cross gable, located on the slope of the lot, is two-and-a-half stories in height. The main block of
the building has a front-gable roof. It is three bays wide and has a center entry reached through an open, gambrel-roofed portico on heavy, Doric columns. Respondent pilasters frame
the double-leaf entry beneath a semi-circular fanlight. Centered above the portico is a three-window composition that has its own segmentally-arched fanlight. Slate-sided shed-roofed
dormers are located on the south roof of the main block and on the west elevation of the wing. A gambrel-roofed dormer is centered on the wing roof. The dormer has two windows beneath
a segmentally arched fanlight. An added ramp and secondary entry are located at first floor level on the wing. This architect-designed building is late Colonial Revival, altering the
traditional proportions and forms for an early 20th century interpretation of the style. 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: “This building was done by Richardson and Driver
in 1918. It replaced the original Gill Hall, which was part of the Capen School. Gill Hall is now used as a day school by the Department of Education.” 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] [33 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.678 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.