FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125

Assessor’s Number

USGS Quad

5A-23

Area(s)

Form Number

SpringfieldNorth

Town: South Hadley Place: (neighborhood or village) South Hadley Falls

Photograph Address:

31-33 Bardwell Street

Historic Name: Dr. Otis Goodman House Uses: Present:

dwelling

Original: dwelling Date of Construction: ca. 1850 Source:

Atlas of 1856

Style/Form:

Italianate

Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick

Topographic or Assessor's Map

Wall/Trim:

asbestos shingles

Roof:

asphalt shingles

Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): ell added ca. 1870;

Condition: Moved: no | |

good

yes | x |

Date 1907

Acreage: 11,095 sq. ft. Setting:

House faces west on a lot that slopes away to the south so that its south façade is fully visible. House is in alignment with others on the street.

Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: PVPC Date (month / year): January 2008

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220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125

___ 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 house at 31 Bardwell Street is the oldest house on Bardwell Street north of Carew. It is also among the best-preserved houses on the street. As it stands on Bardwell Street today, it is a two-and-a-half story, asbestos shingled house under an asphalt-shingled, side-gable roof. The roof has a finely molded boxed eaves profile and makes returns at the gable ends. Attached on the east side of the house is a two-and-a-half story ell for a T-shaped plan. The main block of the house, which rests on brick foundations, is five bays wide and three bays deep. A one-story, hipped roof porch crosses the west and south facades of the main block. It is supported by Italianate style posts and railings with square balusters. The ell is three bays deep and on its south eastern corner is a transverse gable whose eaves make full returns. There is a tall chimney in the ell and one in the east wall of the main block. Windows throughout the house are wooden, 2/2 sash. The two entries are signified by the two openings, railings and stairs in the west porch. The west entry has a stock door surround, but the south entry is more elaborate with a 5-light transom above the door, indicating it was the original primary entry prior to the building’s having been moved. Except for the unadorned door opening on the street façade, the two-family nature of the house is undetectable as it was moved without changing its street orientation from the west to the north, and altered to a two-family, probably also in 1907.

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. Originally constructed at the north end of Market Street at its intersection with Carew Street, this house occupied the lot where now is found the South Hadley Falls library. When the library was constructed in 1907, it was moved north on to the extension of Market Street, whose name by then had been changed to Bardwell Street. The first occupants of the house were Aural Goodman and Dr. Otis Goodman, who practiced medicine and owned a drug store in the early decades of the 19th century in South Hadley Falls, or Canal Village as it was then called. Dr. Goodman was one of the leading figures of the village and with others was involved in the Temperance Movement. He and a number of other Falls residents bought the central inn that catered to riverboat workers and lumbermen in 1846 to put an end to its highly popular tavern. Dr. Goodman was 73 at the time the 1860 census was published, and his wife Aural was 56. They were among the wealthiest residents of South Hadley Falls according to the census with real estate valued at $2,000 and personal wealth of $1,000 at a time when most residents’s holdings were not even recorded. After the move of the house in 1907 directories list the two residents. In 1915 at 31 was Nathan F. Roberts who worked at the Plymouth Paper Company in Holyoke, and in 33 was Andrew Crippen who was at the Carew Manufacturing Company, also a paper making company, but in South Hadley Falls. In 1920 Roberts was still in his half of the house but at 33 was Nathan Samuels who was a cigar maker, a rather unusual occupation in this mill town.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. Atlas of Hampshire County, 1873. Cronin, Irene, and the South Hadley Historical Society. Images of America: South Hadley, 1998. _______. Irene Cronin’s Newspaper Articles, scrapbook, South Hadley Historical Society files. Holyoke and South Hadley Street Directory, 1884-1960. Massachusetts Historical Commission. Reconnaissance Survey Reports, “South Hadley”, typescript, 1982. Sanborn Insurance Maps, 1889-1929. South Hadley Historical Society. Old Homes of South Hadley, Mass., South Hadley, 1988. Walling, Henry Francis. A Topographical Map of Hampshire County Massachusetts, 1856.

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