Round Hill Road 96.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-316 Easthampton NTH.360 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 96 Round Hill Road Historic Name:
Arthur and Margaret Locke House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1916-1922 Source: Street Directories Style/Form: Colonial
Revival/Georgian Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.287 acre Setting: This house occupies a corner lot that is raised in a residential neighborhood.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [96 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.360 _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 Locke House is a classical example of a Georgian Revival house, designed as a branch of the
Colonial Revival. It is two-and-a-half stories under a side-gable roof on which are three deeply pedimented dormers and two chimneys. The clapboard-sided house is five bays wide and
three bays deep and its center entry is a Georgian-derived, hipped-roof portico on paired Doric columns. The portico has a full entablature with a decorative row of dentils at its cornice
level, metopes and triglyphs on its frieze. The entry has a dummy fanlight and sidelights – more Federal Revival than Georgian, but offering more light to the interior. Windows in the
house have 6/6 sash. There is an ell on the west elevation and a side porch on the north. 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 house was built around 1920 for Arthur
and Margaret Locke. Mr. Locke was a professor of Music at Smith College. Round Hill, north of the Clark School, was opened up for residential development around 1900 and features many
examples of ‘Colonial Revival’ architecture. The hill provided fine vistas of the Connecticut River Valley and was a much sought after address.” 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. 727-P. 419
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [96 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.360 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.