Round Hill Road 88.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 24D-320 Easthampton NTH.363 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 88 Round Hill Road Historic Name:
Ysabel Swan House Uses: Present: Four-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1909 Source: Registry of Deeds, Directory & Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form:
Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Four bay garage
Major Alterations (with dates): Window sash replaced, ca. 2010 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.257 acres Setting: This house is set on a part of the crest of
Round Hill and is set back from the street. Large trees shade its expansive lawn.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [88 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.363 _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 Ysabel Swan House is a fine Georgian Revival House whose designer must certainly have been
aware of an original Georgian house, The Manse, on nearby Prospect Street. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a side-gambrel roof, like that of The Manse. It is five bays wide
and three bays deep and the roof eaves make full returns in the gable ends. In comparison to the Georgian house, however, the Georgian Revival’s proportions are larger and its features
spread out to create larger interior spaces. Three large dormers on the roof illustrate the grander scale. There are two pedimented dormers flanking a front-gable dormer. The center
dormer is large enough to accommodate a Palladian window composition. A broad entry with sidelights is sheltered by a large, flat-roofed portico resting on Doric columns; it is topped
by a balustrade. There is an enclosed, one-story porch on the north elevation. 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 house was built in 1909 for Ysabel Swan of Chicago
at a cost of $10,000. Round Hill, north of Clark School, was opened for residential development around the turn of the century and quickly became one of the most exclusive sections in
the city. The hill provided sweeping views of the Connecticut River Valley and its surrounding hills, and had been the site of Round Hill Hotel, Northampton’s premier tourist attraction
of the mid 19th century.” Ysabel Swan also had a house on Tyler Court. 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.462-P. 135
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [88 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.363 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.