Round Hill Road 23.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-168 Easthampton NTH.650 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 23 Round Hill Road Historic Name:
William B. Hale House, “The Gables” Uses: Present: Smith College building Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1860 Source: Early Northampton Style/Form: Gothic Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Ell added on east,
ca. 1940. Condition: fair Moved: no | | yes | x | Date 1880 Acreage: 1.28 acres Setting: This building occupies a sloping lot on Round Hill among institutional and residential buildings.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [23 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.650 _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: This is one of Northampton’s finest Gothic
Revival style buildings. It is a brick building, two stories in height under a steeply-pitched, side-gable roof with a cross-gable centered on the west façade. In the angles made by
the main roof and the cross-gable are one-and-a-half story blocks with mansard roofs. The three main gables of the building have parapet walls; on the north and south there are trefoil
windows at the attic level and on the west is a rondel window. At the first and second stories, windows have Gothic label lintels. On the cross-gable at the second floor is a recessed,
ogive arched, double window. In the corner blocks steeply-pitched, through-cornice dormers have pointed arch window compositions. Quoins mark all the building’s corners. The main entry
in the cross-gable has a recessed, segmentally arched door with no surround. It is sheltered by a full-width porch on chamfered posts. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE (From the 1970/1980 Form B)
This house was built in 1860 for William Hale. At that time Mr. Hale was cashier of the Holyoke Bank, this was later reorganized as the First National Bank of Northampton and Mr. Hale
rose to the Presidency. In 1880 A.L. Williston bought the property and had the house moved south to its present location so he could have a new residence constructed. The Hale House
was occupied by Robert Williston, A.L.’s son. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Early Northampton, “Round Hill, Its
History and Romance”, 1914, pp. 215-231. 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. Northampton Directories: 1868-1869, 1875-1876, 1885-1886. Northampton Atlas 1915 (Placeholder for exact title, author and details.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [23 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.650 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.