Nomination for Hoosac Street School

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NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 8-86) RECENED OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form DEC 2 8 1987J NATIONAL REGISTER This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines for Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box orby entering the requested information. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials, and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets (Form 10-900a). Type all entries.

Name of Property historic name Hoosac Street School other names/site number 2. Location street & number city, town state MA 20 Hoosac Street Adams code MA county Berkshire code N/A not for publication N/A vicinity 003 zip code 01220 3. Classification Ownership of Property X private public-local public-State Jpublic-Federal Category of Property [X] building(s) district site Structure object Name of related multiple property listing: Number of Resources within Property Contributing Noncontributing 1 buildings 0 0 sites structures 0 _ objects 1 0 Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 0 N/A 4.

State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this Xnomination Jrequest for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places andmeetsthe proceduraland professional requirements set forth in 36CFR Part 60. "Daeiinie opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. see continuation sheet. A vaemage Signature of certifying official Dec. 22,1987 Date Executive Director, Massachusetts Historical Commission; State or Federal agency and bureau State Historic Preservation Officer In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. J See continuation sheet. Signature of commenting or other official Date State or Federal agency and bureau 5.

National Park Service Certification I, hereby, certify that this property is: entered in the National Register. See continuation sheet. determined eligible for the National Register. See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the National Register. Patick W. Andus 2/10/88 removed from the National Register. other, (explain:) Signature of the Keeper Date of Action 6. Function or Use Hoosac Street School, Adams, Massachusetts Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) Education: school domestic: multiple dwelling 7. Description Architectural Classification (enter categories from instructions) Colonial Revival Queen Anne Materials (enter categories from instructions) foundation _ walls - roof other granite brick slate N/A Describe present and historic physical appearance.

The Hoosac Street School, at 20 Hoosac Street in Adams, Massachusetts, was erected in 1887. The building faces south on a flat lot bounded on the south and west sides by paved streets. On the north side is a parking lot with space for eighteen vehicles. The school building is set back from Hoosac Street about 24 feet, while the distance to Mill St. in the west and to the abutting property (Adams Bakery, ca. 1940) in the east is about 25 feet. There is a large yard in the rear in which the parking lot is Tocated. The neighborhood surrounding the Hoosac Street School is a mix of one and two-story residential and commercial buildings dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Directly across the street from the school are the Saint Stamilaus Kosta Church, school, and rectory, which were erected after the nominated school was constructed.

The view out of the school's west windows is a spectacular and unimpeded view of Mt. Greylock, the highest peak in Massachusetts. The Colonial Revival style Hoosac Street School is a 2-1/2-story brick addition, there are dormers on the east and west ends of the roof from which interior chimneys protrude. The structure sits on a rough granite foundation and has a raised basement and full attic. The roof extends past the end of the building to form a wide-eaved wooden overhang which is decorated with wooden modillions on all four sides. Likewise, a band of corbelled brickwork runs the length of the cornice just beneath the modillions. Decorative brick belt courses also delineate each story. Wood shingles decorate the center gables, as well as those on the dormers andthe front porch.

See continuation sheet NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form OMB No. 1024-0018 Expires 10-31-87 uca Criy date entered Continuation sheet Hoosac Street School, Adams, Massachusetts Item number 7 Page South: The south or front facade features a central pedimented gab le, sh ingle-sheathed, that extends over the three bays of window and door open ings to define the frontispiece. Sheltering the entrance is a small Queen nne-style porch (recently reconstructed), its gable root clad in shingles crimmed with modillions which echoes the gab le above. Spindlework and turned supports and balusters complete the porch ornamentation. The entrance is reached by a short flight of granite steps.

On both sides of the porch are smal1 rounded-arch 1/1 windows set with in roundheaded recesses. story, pilasters and corbelled modillions define the three bays beneath the gable. The center bay conta ins paired 4/4 sash surmounted by a fan of stained glass, creating a Palladian-style window. El ongated doub le-hung sash on either side are set with in rounded-arch window open ings. On either side of the projecting frontispiec on both floors there are two bays of 2/2 transom-topped w in dows. The ra ised basement is lit by simple sl iding windows, modern replacements. Window open ings are defined by a segmental arch - North: The north rear tacade duplicates the south except that originally there was no porch on this side. (One has been added in the recent rehabil iataion for safety reasons.) Two small wooden sheds were added on either side of the rear entrance at an unknown da te.

structures were removed and reconstructed by the developer, one replaced by storage, the other for handicapped access. attic window is now filled in. The east elevation has four bays with 2/2 sash windows with transoms on the first and second stories and two-panel half windows on the basement floor (these are replacements). The pedimented dormer has two small 6/6 windows. Between these windows the dormer is panelled with a small decorative medalion. West: A chimney about the width of the panelled area protrudes from the dormer roof. The west elevation is identical to the east. THE INTERIOR The entire interior of the school has been altered to accommodate use of the building as twelve apartments. four clasas bns aeupara eenter hatii Fronthandmere Stair wetis led tor shet basement where four more rooms were One apartment has been created in each of the twelve rooms.

The tall cell ings in the classrooms have been lowered. The wide open stairways with their pressed tin walls and ceil ings and wide moldings have been retained by the developer. The high ceil ings in the central hallways on each floor have also been retained. Firedoors now separate these hallways from the stairwells. continued NPS Form 10-900-8 (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Hoosac Street School, Continuation sheet Adams, Massachusetts Item number 7 OMB NO. 1024-0018 Expires 10-31-87 For NPS use only recsived date entered Page 2 ARC HA EO LOGY While no prehistoric sites are currently recorded on the property, it is poss ib le that sites are present.

Located in close proximity to the Hoosac River and several of its tributary streams, the area would have provided seasonal resources attractive for native settlement and subs istence. At least four known sites are located within close proximity (one mile) to the school A small pond, now filled, was ortginayey 1oathed northernytoe gee sahoor uit di sga ihpch tay na fe mad, this particular parcel of land a favorable location for native settlement. surviving sites would be important in documenting the patterns of prehistoric occupation within the town and along the Hoosac drainage, both of which are unknown at this time. There is also significant historical and archaeological potential at the school site. This property was originally part of a farm which dated prior to the Revolutionar y War. The original farmhouse was located across the street from the school.

Also located on the farm was a brickyard reportedly on or near the school Further do cumentar y studies and archaeological testing could help to determine whether or not structural rema ins exist on the school from the farmstead or claypit operation. Eighteenth century occupation-related features (trash pits, privies, wells) may also exist. Analys is of structural and feature remains would assist is defin ing the social, cultural and economic factors that characterized early rural life in 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Hoosac Street School, Adams, Massachusetts Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Jnationally statewide Xlocally JD Applicable National Register Criteria Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Education Social History C JE Period of Significance 1887-1937 Significant Dates Cultural Affiliation N/A Significant Person N/A Architect/Builder Charles T. Rathbun Walters and Fuller State significanceof property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. The Hoosac Street School, Adams, retains integrity of design, setting, materials and workmanship as well as significant association with the development of education in the town and the assimilation of immigrants.

It served as a training facility for the town's teachers and, because of its location, provided education to the offspring of the children of prominent families as well as those of the evergrowing number of immigrants. building is a classic example of simple Colonial Revival-style school architecture. It meets Criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places on the local level. The Hoosac Street School building derives its historical significance from the role it played in the developing educational needs of the community of Adams. The school's development reflects the growing needs of a small New England mill town. The changes that were taking place in many New England towns, as the evolution from an agricultural to an industrial society proceeded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are reflected in Adams' deve lopment.

1886, the Adams School Committee faced the fact that the burgeoning school population had created serious overcrowding in the existing elementary schools, and voted to erect a new school near the center of town. Subsequently, the town voted to build an eight-room schoo lhouse purchased from Wilson D. Carpenter for $1,850. The location on Hoosac Street gave the school its name. T.C. Rathbun, an architect whose office was in Pittsfield, was hired to draw up plans for the building, which was erected completed in 1887 at a total cost of about $20,000. At some point prior to Carpenter's ownership of the land, the property on which the school was later erected was part of the large farmstead of Daniel Staples. , Staples' farmhouse, built prior to the Revolutionary War, stood across the street. (The farmhouse was demolished in 1911 to make room for the extant St.

Stanislaus Kostlea Hall.) The brickyard of Clairman and Co. which provided bricks for the construction of the Renfrew textile mill--later the Adams Arnold Print Works--also stood on the farmstead and operated contemporaneously with the farm into the 1860s when the land was subdivided for residential and other uses have stood on the exact site of the HeosaSscated buildings are known to X See continuation sheet 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References Adams, Town of, Report of the School Committee 1886-1935, Adams-Cheshire Regional District Office. Hoffman, Mildred, interview, May 8, 1985. Northern Berkshire Registry of Deeds, Adams, Mass. Records. Previous documentation on file (NPS): Jpreliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been requested previously listed in the National Register previously determined eligible by the National Register designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # 10.

Geographical Data Acreage of property Less than one acre QUAD- North Adams SCALE- 1:25000 UTM References A 1,8 615,416,1,0 Zone Easting 14,712,017,0,01 Northing See continuation sheet Primary location of additional data: X State historic preservation office Other State agency Federal agency Local government University Other Specify repository: Massachusetts Historical Commission Inventory #100 B D Zone Easting Northing See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description See Assessor's Map. See continuation sheet Boundary Justification The nominated property includes all the land historically associated with the Hoosac Street School. See continuation sheet 11. Form Prepared By name/title Hulda Hardman Jowett/North Adams Hist. Comm. w/David R.

Zarowin/MHC organization _Massachusetts Historical Commission date July 27, 1987 street & number 80 Boylston Street _telephone - (617) 727-8470 city or town Boston state _MA zip code . 02116 NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Hoosac Street School, Continuation sheet Adams, Massachusetts Item number 8 OMB No.1024-0018 Expires 10-31-87 Neo ua cnl date entered The fact that the school population of Adams near ly doub led in the deca de before 1886 reflects two_social changes. the law now required students to stay in school until they reached the age of 14. Secondly, the town's rapid industrial growth brought a similar rise in the population. school's location near the textile mills meant the classes were filled with chlldren from the mill hous ing nearby.

The Super intendent of Schools at the time, Walter P. Beckwith, commented in his 1887 annual report on the improved child labor laws and the resulting increase in the number of students. when state child labor laws were amended to require children to attend school until the age of 16, the Hoosac Street School held even ing "continuation" classes that enab led the mill owners to have children work dur ing the day and still attend school for the time required by law. Dur ing the early 1900s, as increas ing numbers of immigrants arrived from southern and eastern Europe, "Americanization" classes were held at the Hoosac Street School, reflecting the nativism prevalent at the time. While many of the students were mill operatives or had parents work ing as operatives, the Hoosac Street School also was attended by children from the wealthier classes.

Local historians suggest that several graduates of the Hoosac School went on to become local political From the beginning, the Hoosac School was a train ing facility for the town's elemen tary teachers, draw ing first from the brightest high school womer graduates and then from the North Adams Normal School. Enrollment was high from an early date and rema ined so even after two additional elementary schools--the Renfrew School and the Commercial Street School--were established in the 1890s. In addition to these elementary schools, Adams had a high school, the Academy, as ear ly as the 1850s. Another pub lic high school, the Plunkett School (now the town's middle school), was established in the early Yet another high school, the Memorial School (now a primary school), was bullt in 1953, while the present-day high school was built in 1970.

In the early 1970s enrollment began to fall at the Hoosac Street School as upper grades--5 and 6--were comb ined in the middle school. The Hoosac Street School ,in 1981, when all the town's elementary schools were consolidated at the Memorial School. When the Hoosac School closed there were 157 students in grades K-4. The Hoosac Street School is a well-preserved emalgamation of Queen Anne and Co!onlal Revival styles. It incorporates some Queen Anne details such as the spindlework details on the south entry porch, the decorative brick patterns, and the pattern surfaces of the wood shingle on the gable and dormers. Palladian windows and the rounded arch windows over the north and south entrances have large panes of glass surrounded by smaller ones, also a Queen Anne deta il.

continued NPS Form 10-900-8 (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Hoosac Street School, Adams, Massachusetts MENOTUZ4-UUTc Expires 10-31-87 For NPS usa only received date entered Continuation sheet Item number 3 Page 2 The structure is one of three surviving school buildings constructed in late 19th century Adams. The other two, the Renfrew School and the Commercial Street School were built in a similar style and also survive. All contracting work on the Hoosac Street School was done by local firms. George Dollar did stonework, Walters and Fuller the brickwork, and James Flemming, the wood construction. All were reputable bus inessmen responsible for some of the work done on town mills.

5/16" 5/16" 5/16" 5/16" Span 4 to 7 feet 1 3-1/2" x 3-1/2" x 5/16"' 1 ST4B6.5 2 4" x 3-1/2" x 5/16" 4" x 3-1/2" x 5/16" S8 x 18.4 w/plate 15" x 5/16" w/tees at 2'-0"o.c. REMOVE EXIST. BIT. CONC. -REMOVE CONC. - KEMOVE CONG. > REMOVE EXIST. CONC. SLAB REMOVE PLASTER BOTH SIDES. REMOVE PLASTER BOTH SIDES DOWS 160160C PLYWD. SUBFLOOIR %" GWB REMOVE LIGHTS ALL ROOMS (TYP.) REMOVE EXIST. WOOD WAINSCOT (TYP.) CUT BACK LANDING -REMOVE REMOVE CHALKRAILG AND WOOD WAINSCOT FIRST FLOOR, ORIGINAL PLAN (18) M'AL' STAIR *B" [103) UNIT*A" [101 .UNIT*A- LIOA 1881 -188 88 KIT. ENTRY UNIT *A" GEN. STOR. UNIT. *A" LLOS LR STAIR (101] MAT ALCOVE FIRST FLOOR PLAN BR BATH BR FIRST FLOOR, PRESENT PLAN - PRIVATE -- WAY Adoms Housing Authority Ok.664 P.387 98T45 40W " Lilac Hedge ot/.P. fd ppse. 51.10 N59°37'33 Old concrete wal 110.14" 1.P.

fd (Bent West) HOOSAC STREET SCHOOL 20 Hoosac Street Adams, mA John E. Wilk Bk 596 2.595 R6-- Travelled Way__. -- NORTH HOGSAC STREETSE -S 2º23:00°E 264.00 AREA 35,740 S.F. 9/.44" Stone Steps FLOOD 19 ADAMS MERIDIAN. CONTROL Wood flood Brick Ustone (P.s*) steps N87°34'30"F 149.39' 6.0' Concrete Sidewalk Concrete Curb I.P.fa. N3'5830 W 112.81 difa Wood Adams Bakery Association, Inc. Bk.496 P. 6 Brick ,P.t° 95.93' -Conc. Apron STREET HOOSAC concrete Curb. I certify that I have conformed to the rules and regulations of the Registers of Deeds in the preparation of this plan. I.Frankhin Borid I certify that the property lines shown on thls plan are lines dividing existing owner- ships, and that no new lines for division of ex isting ownerstip or for new ways are shown. Bork : PLAN OF LAND Inn.) J. Franklin Bond PCCISTER CAROKUETIR No. 7430 ADAMS, MASS.

PREPARED FOR AN.SINER, JR. SCALE /" =40' JULY 27,1982 40 80 120° HENRY C. NEFF ASSOCIATES, INC. CIVIL ENGINEERS, LAND SURVEYORS $ CONSULTING FORESTERS ADAMS, MASS. NPS Form 10-000-e (8-88) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number- Page OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 SUPPLEMENTARY LISTING RECORD 2547 8700227 NRIS Reference Number: Hoosac Street School Property Name Date Listed: 2/10/88 Berkshire County MA State Multiple Name This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places in accordance with the attached nomination documentation subject to the following exceptions, exclusions, or amendments, notwithstanding the National Park Service certification included in the nomination documentation.

Patuic Anduus fu Signature of the Keeper 2/10/88 Date of Action ============ =2222222222222= Amended Items in Nomination: The area of significance for architecture is justified indicated by criterion C; however, architecture as an applicable area of significance was inadvertently not entered as it should have been. information was confirmed with Ann Tait, Survey & Inventory Coordinator, MASHPO, by telephone on February 1, 1988. DISTRIBUTION: National Register property file Nominating Authority (without nomination attachment) WASO Form - 177 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET 87002547 SUR Hoosac Street School Berkshire County MASSACHUSETTS substantize Revion Working No. DEC 28 1987 Fed. Reg.

Date: 2-7-89 Date Due: 728/88- 2/11/88 Action: _ACCEPT 2-10-58 resubmission RETURN nomination by person or local government REJECT owner objection Federal Agency:. appeal Substantive Review: - sample -request -appeal NR decision Reviewer's comments: rocally umportent orarclutectural significanced its cortributions o AcceptA+d historical developrents in edueatinDisiplineArehtesmal Wostory aud inmigrant porialization. See SLR also __ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: __ technical corrections cited below substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Category vnersh blic Acquisit Status Accessible Present Use 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? yes no 7.

Description Condition - excellent good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one - unaltered altered Check one -original site moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8. Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder/Architect summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name. UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: national state local State Historic Preservation Officer signature date title 13. Other Maps Photographs Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to - Signed - Date - _ Phone: _ GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Hoosac Sreet School 20/toos00 Shut, sdams, MA Photo byitH Jowett June 20,1985- Negatene ar cararoni Mualky co., 107, Main Street, N.Adams, MA Vieiv of south andeast facades END CONSTRUCTION SCHOOL BUS STAP HOUSAC STREET SCHOOL 20 Hoosac Street Adams, mA photographer - H.H.Jouett June 1985 negative at Scarafoni Realty Co.

view of south reast facades Photo #l of1 9-534920345 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State Michael Joseph Connolly, Secretary Massachusetts Historical Commission Valerie A. Talmage Executive Director State Historic Preservation Officer December 22, 1987 Carol Shull National Register of Historic Places Department of the Interior National Park Service P.O. BOx 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: Enclosed you will find the nomination forms for the following properties: Adams, Hoosac Street School, 20 Hoosac Street Boston (Jamaica Plain), District 13 Police Station, 28 Seaverns Avenue Cambridge (Cambridge MRA), George Gale House, 14-16 Clinton Street Shelburne and Buckland, Shelburne Falls Historic District They have been voted eligible by the State Review Board and have been signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer.

Owners were notified of pending State Review Board consideration 30-75 days before the meeting and were afforded the opportunity to comment. No comments have been received to date. Sincerely, Betay Fredlerg Betsy Friedber National Register Directo. Massachusetts Historical Commission BF/es Enclosure DEC 28 1987 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 (617) 727-8470