Round Hill Road 12.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 31B-297-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 12 Round Hill Road Historic Name:
Charles P. Huntington Carriage House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Carriage barn Date of Construction: ca. 1840-1870 Source: History of Huntington House construction Style/Form:
Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: poured concrete Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with
dates): Converted from carriage barn to house ca. 1955. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.184 acres Setting: This house is set back from the street and behind a
large house on the corner of Round Hill Road and Elm Street
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [12 Round Hill Road] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. ___ 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 Colonial Revival style house with a side-gable roof above its two stories. It has a cross-gable with full
eaves return on its east façade. The gabled section of the building is two bays wide and has a side entry under a shed roofed hood. The vinyl-sided building has a shed-roofed garage
on the north and a screened porch on the south. It has the earmarks of a converted building as its parts do not cohere. 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. This house was converted to a residence
from the carriage barn of the Charles P. Huntington. Its history is related to that of the house and from the Form B of 1970 for 137 Elm Street: “This Mediterranean-type villa was erected
in 1841 by Hadley-born Charles P. Huntington on land bought from Edward Clark. Huntington was later appointed justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and moved to Boston. In 1856,
Reverend William Silsbee, pastor of the Unitarian Church, purchased it. In 1864, the Merritt Clarks bought it and his family lived in the house for 46 years until the death of Mary Clark
(a niece of Merritt) in 1939. It was then for some years the home of owners Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Grover until purchased by the Mary A. Burnham School in 1965. It is now owned and occupied
by the family of Richard Shea.” The house does not appear as an address on Round Hill as late as the directory of 1950, so was converted after that date. 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.