Nomination for Coolidge, Calvin, House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 4,361 words across 21 pages, filed in 1976. Reproduced in full, word for word.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 76000262, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the typewriter's. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATA SHEEI FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED OCT 27 1976 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED DEC 12 1976 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS NAME * HISTORIC Calvin Coolidge House AND/OR COMMON same 2 LOCATION 3 STREET & NUMBER 19-21 Massasoit Street CITY.
TOWN Northampton STATE Massachusetts CLASSIFICATION _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 1 CATEGORY -DISTRICT *BUILDING(S) -STRUCTURE -SITE -OBJECT OWNERSHIP _PUBLIC XPRIVATE _BOTH PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS _BEING CONSIDERED - VICINITY OF CODE 025 STATUS XOCCUPIED _UNOCCUPIED _WORK IN PROGRESS ACCESSIBLE XYES: RESTRICTED -YES: UNRESTRICTED _NO COUNTY Hampshire CODE 015 PRESENT USE AGRICULTURE -MUSEUM _COMMERCIAL PARK -EDUCATIONAL XPRIVATE RESIDENCE -ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS GOVERNMENT -SCIENTIFIC _INDUSTRIAL _TRANSPORTATION MILITARY _OTHER: OWNER OF PROPERTY NAME Dr. Henry Littlefield STREET & NUMBER 19 Massasoit Street CITY.TOWN Northampton, VICINITY OF LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION STATE Massachusetts 01060 COURTHOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC. STREET & NUMBER Registry of Deeds for Hampshire County Main Street CITY.
TOWN STATE Northampton REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE Historic Sites and Buildings Survey Inventory of Historic Assets of the Commonwealth Massachusetts 01060 DATE 1965, 1973 XFEDERAL XSTATE _COUNTY _LOCAL DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS National Park Service, Massachusetts Historical Commission CITY. TOWN Washington, Boston STATE D.C., Massachusetts 71DESCRIPTION CONDITION XEXCELLENT _GOOD MFAIR _DETERIORATED -RUINS CHECK ONE X UNALTERED ALTERED CHECK ONE X ORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE _UNEXPOSED DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The Calvin Coolidge House was built in 1900-01 by J. W. O'Brian. It is a two and one half story duplex house, painted yellow and trinmed in maroon. The house is located at 19 Massasoit Street, in a residential area of houses of similar date and construction. The facade of the house is asymmetrical and is dominated by the two projecting entrance porches which grace the corners. The entrance porch on the left, the side which was occupied by Calvin Coolidge, is a pedimented shelter, supported by Doric colums. It is skirted on two sides by lattice work and ornamented by railings and turned balusters. The entrance porch on the right side of the house has similar ornamental detail, but is distinguished trom the pedimented porch by its tlat root. Between the porches are two single-tiered, hexagonal bay windows, one projecting from each apartment.
The left bay is hipped roofed; the right is covered by an extension of the front porch. Except for this instance the fenestration is identical throughout both halves of the house. All the windows have wooden surrounds, and most are six- over-six sash. The louvered shutters that once flanked the windows are gone. Four inch clapboard covers the house and it is topped with a slate-covered, bellcast hipped roof. The interiors of the duplex are similarly designed. The main entrance on the Coolidge side leads into a three foot square vestibule, which provides access to the main entry room. From this room a wide archway opens into the front parlor, which has a hexagonal bay window and Doric pilastered mantel. A similar archway at the rear of the main entry room opens onto the dining room, where the exterior wall is graced by a low window seat.
Triangular shaped pantries fill both corners of the room, while an enclosed service hall passes to the right of the dining room and connects the main entrance room to the kitchen in the rear. Access to the second floor is from the main entry room via an open three-flight, balustraded stair with a paneled newel. The stair opens onto a large landing above the main entry room of the first floor. To the left, above the parlor, is a bedroom. To the right of the landing is a second bedroom, a bath, a closet and a hall that leads along the right wall to a third bedroom that is situated over the kitchen. The stair continues in two flights to the attic, where there are two storage rooms and another bedroom.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD _PREHISTORIC _1400-1499 -1500-1599 -1600-1699 *1700-1799 =1800-1899 - 1900- AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW -ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC - COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC _CONSERVATION -LAW -AGRICULTURE _ECONOMICS _LITERATURE ARCHITECTURE _EDUCATION -MILITARY ART -ENGINEERING _MUSIC - _COMMERCE -EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PHILOSOPHY _COMMUNICATIONS _INDUSTRY X POLITICS/GOVERNMENT INVENTION _RELIGION _SCIENCE _SCULPTURE _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _THEATER -TRANSPORTATION -OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER

Statement of significance

/ARCHITECT The Calvin Coolidge House is historically significant as the residence of the 3lst President of the United States. Calvin Coolidge resided in the house from 1906 to 1930, leaving only to serve in state and national offices in Boston and Washington, D.C. It was in this house that he reared his children, launched his state and national political careers, and resided during his first months after vacating the Presidency of the United States. Equally significant are the character of the residence and the arrangement under this house is a orelptively simpse, frame stre ware.eore inportantay, coolidge' s principal residence was a duplex house. He occupied only one side of it which he rented.
He moved from the dwelling reluctantly in the spring of 1930 largely be- cause it became an attraction for out-of-town motorists whose gawking prevented the former President from relaxing by rocking on his front porch or strolling up and down the street. The house is unique among principal non-official residences of incumbent and retired Presidents of the United States. The significance of this house is perhaps most evident in the words of Calvin Coolidge himself, "The days passed quietly with us until the next autumn, when we moved into the house in Massasoit Street that was to be our home for so long. I attended to the finishing of it myself, and when it was ready Mrs. Coolidge and I walked over to it. two weeks our first boy came on September seventh...We liked the house where our children came to us and the neighbors were so kind.
When we could have had a more pretentious home, we still clung to it. So long as I lived there, I could be independent and serve the public without ever thinking that I could not maintain my position if I lost my office. I always made my living practicing law up to the time I became Governor, without being dependant upon any official salary. This left me free to make my own decisions in accor- dance with what I thought was the public good. We 1 ived where we did that I might better serve the people." The Americans: The Democratic Experience (New York: Random House, 1973) Hicks, John D., Republican Ascendancy, 1921-33, (New York; Harper Row, 1960) McCoy, Donald R. Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President (New York: Macmillan Co.
1967) Young, Donald, American Roulette: The History and Dilemma of the Vice Presidency, (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965) Coolidge, Calvin; Autobiography 10

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than one acre UTM REFERENCES ALtI ZONE 6193190,01 EASTING 14.6188132210) NORTHING LliLi VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION EASTING NORTHING VORTHING LLELLILIL LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE CODE COUNTY CODE STATE CODE COUNTY CODE 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE ORGANIZATION Massachusetts Historical Commission STREET & NUMBER 294 Washington Street CITY OR TOWN Boston Andrea M. Gilmore and George R. Adams, American Asoc. State & Local History 1976 Jul. TELEPHONE 617-727-8470 STATE Massachusetts 02108 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL STATE_ LOCAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).
I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE liiabet Kul Amadn TITLE Executive Director Massachusetts Historical Commission DATE (O///76 OR NPS USE ONLY 1 HEREBY CERTIFY T THIS PROPERT OFI YCLODED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER DATE 12/12/36 SYANGHISTOLNL PREGERVATIÓ DATE 121026 KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892-453 Property Calvin Coolidge House State Mass. TECHNICAL Photos - 2 Maps Working Number 10.27.76.4397 76000262 Hampshire CONTROL 10.27.76 HISTORIAN accept 8. Grcauraa 1/1/76 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Accept Leborich 12.1.76 ARCHEOLOGISI OTHER HAER Inventory .
Review REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 2-1-22 Send-back Re-submit astue BRANCH CHIEF Açerpr Cole 12-6-76 KEEPER Lor 12/10/72 Entered DEC 12 1976 INT:2106- .74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 Calvin Coolidge House Northampton, MA. Hampshui Co. 1975 George R. Adams, AASLH Massachusetts Historical Commission Boston, Massachusetts Photo #1 Looking southwest towards the facade DEC 12 19/6 OCT 2 7 1976 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL PECISTER Calvin Coolidge House Northampton, MA. 1975 George R. Adams, AASLH Massachusetts Historical Commission Boston, Massavhusetts wie co. Photo #2 Looking southwest down Massasoit Street DEC 12 1976 OCT 2 7 1976 PROFERIY OF THE NATIONAL REEISTER OCT 1 3 1972 H34-PHR BeAxoN SARLES Muetrah T.G. Wo d/e, 1% Whutklso//s Crellin for PH 1% Hon. Bdward M.
Kennedy United States Senate Washington, D.C. Deas Senstor Kennedy: The Office of Congressional Liaison has asked us to thank you for your inguiry on behalf of Mr. Oliver R. Hayes concerning the establishment of a President1al Iibrazy for President Coolidge and the historle preservation of the Coolidge hone, The Beeches, in Northanpton, Massachusetts. The establishment of Presidential Libraries is a prezogative of Congress. If legislation should be introduced for a Coolidge Presi- dential library, then Congress vould pass on the merits of the pro- posal. Existing Presidential Libraries are administered by the National Archives and Records Service. Establiahment of The Beechesas a unit of the latfonal Park Systen also vould regutre legislation in Congress.
Historie sites and buildings so established must meet the-criteria of national signifieance listed on pages 13-15 of the enclosed eogy of "NPS Criteria for Parklands." The enclosed folder, "The lational Register of Historic Places," and the faet sheet describe the granta-in-ald program authorised by the National Historie Preservation Act of 1966 (80 Stat. 915), as amended, vhich might be of interest to lr. Hayes in connection with the pre- servation of The Beeches. A property must be listed on the National Register and must be consistent with an approved State historie pre- servation pian before it can be considered for a matehing grant under this progren. Since State funds available for matehing generally exceed the Pederal appropriation for grants-in-ald, only a portion of al1 gront applications can be approved.
BASIC FILES RETAINED IN PHR) CL-1885 134 10-5 Nominations to the National Reglster, as vell as applications for grants-in-aid, are nade by the State through the State Mfatson Officer for historle preservation. The Massschusetts State Idaison Ofticer 18 the Honorable John T. X. Devozen, Secretary of the Connonveaith, Chaiman, Hassachusetts Historical Conmiasion, Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston, Massachusetta 02133- We appreciate your interest in the progrems of theNational Park Service. Sincerely yours, (Sgd) Robert M. Linn Acting Associate Director Enclosure (Conetituents l ial retumed) cc: Honorable John F. X. Davoren, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Chariman, Massachusetts Historical Commission Office of the Secretary State House Boston, Massachusetts 02133)w/cy inc. CL Director, Northeast Region) LI-Mr. Winge PHR) LOS) FNP:FBSarles:dvt:10-5-72 SEP D 1072 Hon.
adwazd Me Kenned United States Senate Washington, D.C. Deaz Senator Kennedy': The Office of Congressional Miaison has aaked us to acimowledge your ingulzy in behald of Me, Oliver R. Hiyes concerning preserva- tion and expension of the Calvin Cooliige Colleetion presently housed in the Forbes Iibrary in Northaupton, Measschusetts. We appreciateyouriaterest inthis matter andwill provide you a reply at our earliest opportunity. Sincerely yours, George B. Hartzog, Jr. Dizectoz P.S. It you need to contact someone turther concerning thin matter, please call the Division of legislative Services on code 183, extension 38067, or Area Code 202, 343-3067. CC: LTAS (2)) w/c of inc. FNP:CRBraxton:1bb :9-20-72 (CL-1885) Mr. Oliver RHayes hibrarian Forbes Library Northampton, Mass. -01060 Actimm ....- For imu ouly Nnited States Senate Sept. 12, 1972 Y LIBRARIAN OLIVER R. HAYES SECRETARY JAMEB K.
MCDONALD TREASURER LAWRENCE E. KELLEY 972 Respectfully referred to: Department of the Interior ERIOR 21 AM "72 CRETARY LLJ Because of the desire of this office to be responsive tosall inquiries and communications, - your consideration of the attached is requested. Your findings and views, in duplicate form, along with return of the enclosure, will be appreciated by r a bill to preserve centennial celebration, orthwhile candidate for eveloped a growing Cal- the largest resource 1 1956, a special state ion of a room in this 3, papers, books and Ly and made available ed for that stage 0f Ichurd in lle ü.s.s. iate site in to which le house owned by Mr. nusetts. He called it in Northampton with a area, and Connecticut Form #2 1 by Mrs. Mary Bailey CL.1885 = President's widow after his death in 1933.
Closely allied to this idea of preserving The Beeches, as a former President's House, is the possible renovation of a part , of it or even an addition to it by which it might becone a Presi- dential Library. I believe that an exploration of the possibility of a Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library or some suitable alterna- tive would yield a sufficient return to justify a careful professional Suter TRUSTEES JOHN F. MURPHY, JR. ROBERT M. MORIARTY JUDITH A. HUBLEY FORBES LIBRARY NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 01060 LIBRARIAN OLIVER R. HAYES SECRETARY JAMEB K. MEDONALD TREASURER LAWRENCE E. KELLEY August 7, 1972 The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy Senate Office Building Washington, D.
Co 20510 Dear Senator Kennedy: Because you are preparing to sponsor a bill to preserve and renovate historic sites for the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, I would like to bring to your attention a worthwhile candidate for this possible Federal Program. The Forbes Library has since 1920 developed a growing Cal- vin Coolidge Collection until it has become the largest resource for material on Coolidge in the country. In 1956, a special state appropriation made possible the reconstruction of a room in this library in which the President's memorabilia, papers, books and photographs coula be housed together properly and made available to the public. Some $29,787.67 were required for that stage of growth. Soon to be available, as an appropriate site in to which to expand the Coolidge collection, is the one house owned by Mr. Coolidge during his entire career in Massachusetts.
He called it The Beeches, a beautiful tree-lined estate in Northampton with a commanding view oi the Ilood plain, ut. lom area, ana connecticut River. At present, it is owned and lived in by Mrs. Mary Bailey who purchased the house and grounds from the President's widow after his death in 1933. Closely allied to this idea of preserving The Beeches, as a former President's House, is the possible renovation of a part . of it or even an addition to it by which it might become a Presi- dential Library. I believe that an exploration of the possibility of a Calvin Coolidge Fresidential Library or some suitable alterna- tive would yield a sufficient return to justify a careful professional -2 survey. This survey would establish both the feasibility of such a plan and a means of implementation.
I have therefore three questions to raise: 1) how might funds for this survey be obtained; 2) how might The Beeches be ac- quired as a national historic site; 3) how might a pian be imple- mented by which the present Coolidge collection woula become a Presidential Library? On this last question, as you know, every United States President from Mr. Nixon back to Mr. Hoover has a Presidential Library maintained by the Federal Archives and Records Service. In each case, private and state help was required in some combination to purcnase a site, a bullaing, nire a stall, ana insure that the resulting Iacility would be, in fact, maintained by the Federal government.
It seems to me that a survey is the first step and I have written to the Governor of Massachusetts, the tederal Archives and Records Service and to one of the six Mellon Foundations inquiring as to their interest in and the availability of funds for a profes- sional survey. The last two sources have indicated a negative re- action as "outside of our scope." The Governor has yet to reply. Lastly, the State of Vermont would like to claim Mr. Coolidge as "their" President and considerable preparation has been made in Plymouth, Vermont to establish this claim. Their shrewdness if suc- cessful would limit the future scope of this State to establish a Coolidge Center and library. Mr. Coolidge left Vermont at the age of 18 for Amherst Cullege and after graduation developed his whole political career fron Northampton.
It is to Massachusetts that the benefits of this career belong- Perhaps your active interest in this project could make the difference in initiating a planned growth toward a national status both for the Forbes Coolidge Collection and The Beeches in Northamp- ton. Thank you for your consideration. Very truly yours, c.lisi Oliver R. Hayes Librarian Hiyx Encl. THE CALVIN COOLIDGE MEMORIAL ROOM Luoke Castok FORBES LIBRARY Northampton, Massachusetts The Memorial Rcom is open 9 A. M. to 8:30 P. M. Weekdays 2 to 6 P. M. Sundays and Holidays (Closed Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiring, and Christmas) CALVIN COOLIDGE A Chronological Summary Born July 4, 1872, Plymouth, Vermont Died January 5, 1933, Northampton, Massachusetts May 23, 1890 Graduated from Black River Academy, Ludlow, Vermont.
June 26, 1895 Graduated from Amherst College, and on September 23 began reading law with the Northampton firm of Hammond and Field. July 2, 1897 Admitted to the bar in Northampton and later became a member of the Republican City Committee for Ward 2. December 6, 1898 Elected City Councilman from Ward 2. January 18, 1900 Elected (by City Council) City Solicitor. January 17, 1901 Re-elected City Solicitor. January 16, 1902 Defeated for City Solicitor by Theobald M. Connor. June 4, 1903 Appointed Clerk of Courts of Hampshire County, 1904 Chairman, Republican City Committec, Northampton. October 4, 1905 Married Grace Anna Goodhue at Burlington, Vermont. December 5, 1905 Defeated for School Committeeman by John J. Kennedy. August 1906 Rented half of the double house at 21 Massasoit Street. September 7, 1906 John Coolidge, first child, born.
November ú, 1906 Elected Representative to the Massachusetts General Court. Noverrber 5, 1907 Re-elected Representative. April 13, 190:8 Calvin Coolidge, Junior, second child, born. December 7. 1909 Elected Mayor of Northampton (beginning a continuous course of public service to March 4, 1929). December 6, 1910 Re-elected Mayor. November 7, 1911 Elected State Senator, November 5, 1912 Re-elected State Senator. November 4, 1913 Re-elected State Senator and subsequently elected President of thc Senate by the Senators. November 3, 1914. Re-elected State Senator and President of the Senate. November 2, 1915 Elected Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts. November 7, 1916 Re-elected Lieutenant-Governor. November 6, 1917 Re-elected Lieutenant-Governor. November 5, 1918 Elected Govenor of Massachusetts. September 9-11, 1919 Boston Police Strike.
Governor, Coolidge came to national atten- tion because of his stand for law and order. In a telegram to Samuel Gompers, Presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor, he declared.. "There is no right to strike against the public safcty by anybody, anywhere, any time.' November 4, 1919 Re-elected Governor. June 12, 1920 Nominated for Vice-President by the Republican National Convention meeting in Chicago. Warren G. Harding, U. S. Senator from Ohio, was the Republi- can candidate for the Presidency. July 27, 1920 Official notification of the Republican nomination for the Vice-Presidency at Allen Field, Smith College, Northampton. November 2, 1920 Elected Vice-President of the United States. March 4, 1921 Warren G. Harding inaugurated as President, Calvin Coolidge as Vice' President, of the United States.
2:47 A.M., August 3, 1923 Upon news of President Harding's death in San Francisco (7:30 P.M., August 2) Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President by his father, a notary public, in the homestead at Plymouth, Vermont. June 12, 1924 Calvin Coolidge nominated for President (by Marion L. Burton, former President of Smith College) at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, nominated for Vice-President. July 7, 1924 the White House. Tragic death, caused by blood poisoning, of Calvin Coolidge, Junior, at November 4, 1924 Calvin Coolidge elected President, March 4, 1925 Inauguration as President. August 2, 1927 From summer White House at Rapid City, South Dakota, issued state- ment, "I do not choose to run for President in nincteen twenty-eight.
August 27, 1928 _Signing of the Pact of Paris, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, considered at the significant forward step in international relations. Under it 62 nations nounced war as a means of international policy. The pact was ratified by the U. S. Senate and signed by President Coolidge January 17, 1929. . March 4, 1929 After attending the Inauguration of Herbert Hoover as President, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge returned to live at 21 Massasoit Street, Northampton. March 4, 1930 Coolidge Dam, near Globe, Arizona, dedicated by ex-President Coolidge. It was the largest multiple dome dam in the world with a capacity of 1,200,000 acre May 17, 1930 The Coolidges moved to The Beeches on Hampton Terrace. January 5, 1933 Death of Calvin Coolidge from a coronary thrombosis.
April 17, 1936 Appropriation by the Northampton City Council to purchase exhibit and book cases, establishing at Forbes Library the first memorial to Calvin Coolidge. October 12, 1939 Calvin Coolidge Memorial Bridge, linking Northampton and Hadley dedicated. ( U. S. Senator David I. Walsh gave the principal address and Governor Leverett Saltonstall was the ranking Commonwealth official. June 16, 1956 Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth. Vermont, precented to Vermont by Mr. and Mrs. John Coolidge as a state shrine. September 16, 1956 Calvin Coolidge Memorial Room in Forbes Library dedicated. Claude M. Fuess, biographer of Calvin Coolidge, gave the address Dr. and Governor Christian A. Herter delivered dedicatory remarks. July 8, 1957 Death in Northampton of Mrs.
Calvin Coolidge (Born, Burlington, Ver- mont, January 3, 1879.) Forbes Library began its Calvin Coolidge collection in 1920 when Gover- nor Coolidge was nominated as Vice-President on the Republican ticket. Mr. Coolidge took an active intcrest in this work and deposited family pictures as well as many souvenirs and gifts received during the Presiden- tial period. The official White House portraits by Howard Chandler Christy are a prominent item: In 1935 Mrs. Coolidge added many valued mementoes. For the historian the library has on file the correspondence of Mr. Coolidge as Governor and Vice-President, the texts of virtually all of his speeches, proclamations, and addresses of all periods, the stenographic transcripts of his Presidential press conferences and other "off-the-record" remarks. Scores of scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine clippings reflect the period.
In 1956 a special state appropriation made li possible to bring together and display in one hall the Calvin Coolidge cullection. Cases matching those bought by the City in 1936, manuscript c'isplay tables, and fireproof safes now exhibit and protect the late President's material. The collection approached comprehensiveness with the acquisition by Forbes Library in 1965 of a complete microfilm copy of the Calvin Coolidge Papers photographed from the originals in the Presidential Papers Section of the Library of Congress. The 190 microfilm reels reproduce 284 manuscript boxes and 3 volumes of Executive Office correspondence. Mass.
ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Date Entered STATE MASSACHUSETTS DEC 12 1976 Name Kittredge Mansion Royalston Conmon Historic District Coolidge, Calvin, House Train, Samuel, House Rocks Village Historic District Location North Andover Essex County Royalston Worcester County Northampton Hampshire County Weston Middlesex County Haverhil1 vicinity Essex County 12/16/76 Hon. M1chael J. Harrington Regional Director, North Atlantic Region Mott 880 Also Notified Hon. Edward M. Kennedy Hon. Edward W. Brooke Hon. Paul Isongas Hon. Edward P. Boland Hon. Si1vio 0. Conte Hon. Robert F. Drinan State Ilistoric Preservation Officer Mrs. Elizabeth R. Amadon Executive Director, Massachusetta Historical Commission 294 Washington Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108 INT: 2950-75 mo NR Data Sheet CHeK DEMU DATE: 11/1/16 Reviewer INITIALS: 86.
DOE DEC 12 1976 NAME AS IT APPEARS IN FEDERAL REGISTER: Coolidge, Calvin, House OTHER NANES: LOCATION: STREET & NUMBER 19-21 Massäsoit St. CITY.
TOWN Northampton CONGRESSIUNAL DISTRICT lst VICINITY OF STATE Massachusetts 025 -COUNTY Hampshire - code 015 OWNER OF PROPERTY: (Circle) PRIVATE STATE LOCAL GOV'T MUNICIPAL COUNTY OTHER FEDERAL (AGENCY NAME) : ADMINISTRATOR(underline) NPS REGION: (CIRCLE)N.ATLANTIC MID ATLANTIC SOUTHEAST MIDWEST SOUTHWEST ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST FEATURES: INTERIOR Substantially intact-1 - unknown - 4 - not applicable - 7 CONDITION - EXCELLENT -GOOD - FAIR EXTERIOR ENVIRONS -Substantially intact-2 Substantially intact-3 _ unknown.-> - unknown -6 - not applicable - 8 _Not applicable-9 -Interioi, exterior, environs not intact-0 - DETERIORATED LUNALTERED _RUINS -ALTERED -UNEXPOSED -Reconstructed KORIGINAL SITE _MOVED -Unkncwn _Unexcavater -Excavated ACCESS - Yes-restricted historic distriet? Yes-unrestricted No access Unknown YES WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT?
IF YES, NAME: YES NO WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? IF YES, NAME: YES NO ADAPTIVE USE: YES Saved?
YES NO FUNCTION (S): (use vocabulary words) then- house now-house SIGNIFICANCE: -ARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORIC -ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC -AGRICULTURE -ARCHITECTURE ART _COMMERCE -COMMUNICATIONS Claims -CONSERVATION -ECONOMICS -EDUCATION _ENGINEERING _EXPLORATION -INDUSTRY -INVENTION "first" YES NO 16/21 LAw/Gov't/pol1tic -RELIGION l t/politics _SCIENC -_LITERATURE _MILITARY -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN MUSIC _PHILOSOPHY -POLeG-604 _TRANSPORTATION _OTHER (SPECIFY) -entertainment - health _recreation _settlement -socio/cultural _urban & commun planning "oldest' YES NO "only" YES NO ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: architect/m.builder: landscape/garden designer: interior decorator: ETHNIC GROUP: NAMES: (label role & appropriate date) events engineer: artist/artisan: builder/contractor: personal Caluin Coolidga (1812-1933) - oner - Cawyae, otate legislator, MA gobemn, 30t us.
President institutional DATES: DATE OR CONSTRUCTION (specifie date ox 1/4 of century): 1900-lal DATE (S) OF "MAJOR" ALTERATIONS: HISTORICALIY SIGNIFICANT DATE(S) : 1906 - 1930 SOURCE: (OF NOMINATION) PRIVATE STATE LOCAL GOV"T MUNICIPAL COUNTY OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY : ACREAGE: (to nearest tenth of an acre) .1-.9 COMMENTS: (include architectural information here) FREAME, RECTAWSULAR, HIPPEDN DORMERS, POTCHES, BAKS Fraine, sactangutar clapboardung; 2Y2 stories, modified rectangle, hepped roof . sections, ünterin chemnep, galiled dormers, duplex duulling featuring 2 enhrance porches. Uernaculang SIGNIFICANCE: (maximum two sentences) Aa Cabuia Cobidgo Srae eo Yke Kmme quuernos and U.5. Preoident Celuin CodlidyO § state legialetor, mavocchuneta