Round Hill Road 95.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-318 Easthampton NTH.361 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 95 Round Hill Road Historic Name:
Minshall House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1898-1899 Source: Gazette, 12/17/1898, Directory Style/Form: Tudor Revival
Architect/Builder: Roswell F. Putnam, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, stucco, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary
Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.503 acre Setting: This house is deeply shaded by mature trees and shrubbery
in a residential neighborhood.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [95 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.361 _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 Minshall House is unique in Northampton. It is a Tudor Revival style building, two-and-a-half
stories in height under a front-gable roof that is trimmed with a solid barge board. There is half-timbering in the gable field that projects slightly over a jetty. There is a second
jetty between first and second stories. The first story is clapboard-sided and the second story is shingled with a row of mouse-tooth shingles at the jetty. The house has a cross-gable
on the north that adds complexity to its plan. The main entry is a Tudor Revival portico with a front-gabled roof. It has a solid, ornamented bargeboard and half-timbering in its gable
field. The Tudor Revival took off in the 1920s as a popular style, so this house represents its early form when each version was unique and somewhat experimental. 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 1976: “Roswell F. Putnam, Northampton’s leading architect in the later nineteenth century designed this residence for a local physician, Dr. Minshall.” 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 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] [95 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.361 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.