Round Hill Road 19.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-169 Easthampton NTH.651 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 19 Round Hill Road Historic Name:
Oliver Walker House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1896 Source: Registry of Deeds, Directory & Springfield Daily Republican
Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate, metal and asphalt. Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.734 acre Setting: This house is shaded by a large copper beech tree and is located on the lower
slope of Round Hill facing west.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [19 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.651 __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 Walker House is a fine Colonial Revival style house, two-and-a-half stories in height under
a truncated hipped roof. The clapboard-sided house is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep and it has a two-story ell on the west with a partially enclosed north porch.
The house has a centered cross-gable flanked by two hipped roof dormers with shingled walls. In the cross-gable is a Colonial Revival style Palladian window composition. The west façade
has a pedimented porch one bay wide that rests on paired Ionic columns above paneled pedestals. Finely fluted cornerboards support a full entablature beneath the eaves. A row of dentil
molding ornaments the cornice of the main block of the house as well as the porch cornice. A through-eaves exterior wall chimney is located on the north elevation and adjacent to it
at the second story level is a rounded, oriel window. Windows have architrave surrounds that have entablatures on the first story level. 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 large Colonial Revival residence was built in 1896 for Oliver Walker at a cost of $10,000. Mr. Walker was the secretary and treasurer of the Hampshire Mutual Fire Insurance Company
and a practicing insurance and real estate agent. Round Hill had long been one of Northampton’s most exclusive areas and Round Hill Road was the early means of access. In the late 19th
century, the southern slopes of the hill began to be developed.” 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk.
484-P. 203
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [19 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.651 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.