Built in 1900 in the Colonial Revival architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Calvin Coolidge House is a historic house located at 19-21 Massasoit Street in Northampton, Massachusetts. Built in 1901, it is most historically significant as the home of the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge between 1906 and 1930, the height of his political career.”
Wikipedia article Calvin Coolidge House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 32 National Register listings in Hampshire County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1900, Colonial Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.76000262- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
The city of Northampton has for several years established its cruslaing works near the north line of the town and at a distance from railroads, and works the Hatfield tonalite or hornblendic granite, which is a partly decomposed rock, more brittle than the trap, and in many ways an inferior rock for road ballast. The city has access beside the road or railroad within its own limits to several better ledges than the one it works now. In 1897 the city of Ware opened a quarry on the Coys Hill dike on the mountain side east of the railroad station. The dike is here 5 rods wide, favorably situated for quanying, and will furnish the best material in inexhaustible quantity.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Coolidge, Calvin, House between
2015 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
26
Equipment and vehicle use
20
Debris and open burning
13
Recreation and ceremony
10
Natural
6
Arson/incendiarism
4
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 6,158 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Coolidge, Calvin, House between 1781 and
1975: 3,171 Plantae, 1,544 Fungi, 1,237 Animalia, 134 Chromista, 62 Protozoa, 9 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A V Osmun, A., A. Albee and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
23 workings within 5 miles of Coolidge, Calvin, House: 12 past producers, 11 producers.
11 still produce. What was taken out: Brick Clay, Clay, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Northampton, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 4 hail, 4 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Record flooding along the Mill River caused extensive flooding in Northampton. The river crested at 15.6 feet on the 16th, which was the highest crest on record, and well above the previous record crest of 13.7 feet which occurred in October, 2005. Many roads near the river were closed and some evacuations took place as flood waters threatened nearby homes and businesses.|Minor flooding also affected the mainstem Connecticut River through Northampton. A crest of 119 feet was recorded at 430 pm on the 17th (flood stage is 112 feet).
After receiving roughly four and a half inches of rain from Tropical Storm Irene, an overtopped dike resulted in the closure of West Street in Northampton. At exit 24 on Route 5, there was five to six feet of water flooding the road, with two cars floating down the road.
In the Florence section of Northampton, a 50 foot by 50 foot wooden permanent pavilion structure was blown crooked at a landmark restaurant/tavern. The footings, which were lifted and bent, were attached by a metal bracket to concrete. The pavilion can accomodate 18 tables with 4 people per table. The building inspector classified the damage as $20,000. Slightly farther to the southeast, a 50 ft by 75 ft. section of roofing, including insulation and rubber membrane, was peeled off of the Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School. There was little in the way of water damage inside the school. The Northampton building inspector rated the roof damage as $30,000. Still farther to the southeast, a tree was down on Washington Avenue, as reported by amateur radio.
Numerous trees were downed in Northampton, including several on Summer Street and one on Massasoit Street which fell on wires. Large trees also were downed in Easthampton, including one that fell on a house and a car on Chestnut Street.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
4,361 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
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.
/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.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76000262, 21 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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