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17, DESC~_JPTION
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f\ >'\\ofil"j J6rf il\(t. ~~ The 9affi6:ri""Pr&tt Hi.rtoric District encompasses about ~
acres, approximately ~ ~tructures, and is primarily resident~al in character. Building density 1s moderate throughout the district and structures are complemented by greenery, particularly to the south of Bridge Street~ The aistrict is visually coherent along Bridge, Ha~,;rley, and .Market Streets and along Pomeroy Terrace, although the architecture of the former area is primarily late colonial and Greek Revival while Phillips Place-Pomeroy Terrace is Victorian in ambiance. The district'seent:ains tv~ major slemGmts, each representative of the h£bits and tastes of a significant segment of nineteenth century Northampton's populationt,- the fashionable neighborhood which developed to the south of Bridge Street in the mid-nineteenth century· ._.emd=the- earli:er=a-nd more mc:.:u:lest~hbo.drood-~~~-~th-~e-f--g_~i-Elge Street, populated by Northampton' s mechanics and artisans al'l·el----ee-ntai-l'li-fl:g- the impressive and well-preserved Hamps-hire Coun.qz:....Hou~se of Cor-rection. Intrusions -in----t-h-e----form of a superma-rk-et-{J-960) and post office (1975) do occur but are-concertera-t-e-d---a-t the intersection of Hawley, Ma-rket, -and--Brci-dg-e-St-l:e-e-ts-.-----'".th-e-. eastern boundary of .the district is the natural--bounda-1."-y··provi.:S-e-G-by:--t.n.($..-Co.~.e.cti.cl.l-t -Ri-v-e-r---f-l-ee-d--13-l.--a.-i..a; the we!.t e ~, bounaa~y-,~--the.-..ra1lroad .~ed,--allo:ws a buffer o.ne. huild1ng deep at the west .• --A.t~t.l.l.e.~.RG-:r'-tA--~11--d-C!:t~-:Y-*l;;eG\t and the Bri dge-f3-t;-r-eet~-eemet-ery--si:-gni~fi·can-t·Hstructures -are· wi~clely spaced; ,a..t the south,: a-rchitectural- quali-ty diminishes ni7~y-.
Architecture in the proposed historic district ranges from functional 18th century structures to rich and decorative Victorian designs and includes two fine examples of the early twentieth century bungalow style. The more ambitious structures reflect, in their design, siting, and execution, the dictates of Victorian residences in Northampton: wood rather .than brick or masonry construction predominates, styles are generally later in their introduction and more restrained in their execution in Northampton, and gothic revival designs, while abounding in gables and gingerbread, are decidedly regular and symmetrical. (This last fact is undoubtedly attributable to a persistant puritan suspicion of the emotions stirred by the romantic movement as well as to the hand of a local archi teet whose early training in the Greek Revival was never shaken.)
The district derives its name from two nineteenth century architects, residents of Northampton, whose work in Northampton and surrounding towns significantly contributed to the architectural herita~e of the Connecticut Valley. Isaac Damon (1781-1862) worked oredominantlv in the Federal style and designed residences, 'Churches and· bridges in the area. His work is represented in the district by the Isaac Damon House (1812) at· 46 Bridge Street. William Fenno Pratt
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Form 10-300o (July !969)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
STATE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY
INVENTORY- NOMINATION FORM -~
(Continuation Sheet)
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ENTRY NUMaER I DATE
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(1814-1900) entered the orofession in Northamoton in 183@ with his design for the picturesque Gothic Seminary and later produced designs for commercial blocks, residences, and railroad stations. Pratt inherited the trade from his father Thomas Pratt (1784-1868), trained young E. C. Gardner (later of Springfield), and bequeathed the business toW. F. Pratt, Jr., his less talented son, about 1880. Although W. F. Pratt has not achieved the recognition which Isaac Damon has, Pratt 1 s designs represent the bulk of the early Victorian architecture in Northampton.
Moving along Bridge Street, an early thoroughfare, one encounters an early ensemble including the 17th century Cornet Joseph Parsons House and the Isaac Damon House ( 1812). Even in the absence of its balustrade at the roofline, the twin chimneys, hipped roof and flat and symmetrical facade of the Damon House signal its federal style associations. Unlike the full three story federal residences of prosperous seacoast areas of Massachusetts, the Damon House is a modest two stori-es.
To the northeast of the Damon House, the colonial Parsons and late colonial Shepherd Houses complete the trio of residences of the Northampton Historical Society. The Shepherd House documents the numerous currents of taste which followed its construction along Georgian lines in 1792 •. The gable ends have been framed and a later side entrance also exhibits the influence of the Greek Revival; an airy gothic portico (c.1855) offers a marked contrast to the solid and cubic mass to the rear Bays, porches, and bold Italianate trim added to the remaining early residences (1790-1820) along Bridge Street reveal the nineteenth century resident's concern with maintaining a stylish appearance at modest outlay.
Opposite the Parsons House is the stately Lathrop-Butler residence (1848) in which flat roof, emphatic pilasters and enlarged and gracious windo1.v :areas combine in a design influence~ by the Greek Revival and executed by W. F. Pratt. Son of Isaac Damon's contemporary, architect Thomas Pratt, W. F. Pratt is responsible for many of the designs in the proposed historic district as well as dozens of commercial and industrial structur s in the greater Northampton area.
Similar in design and~enriched by later additions, the Osmyn Baker House (1856) at 78 Pomeroy Terrace is a tv.-o story brick and stucco structure whose ornate porch and cupola camoflage the spare and symmetrical character of the brick mass. At the time of its construction, Pratt had gained a reputation as the residential architect in the area.
Facing the brick residence are two vvooden structures which port~ay two popular Victorian styles drawn from European arch1.tecture. The deep mansard with dormers of the Second
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
NATIONAL REGISTER 0 F HISTORIC PLACES
INVENTORY- NOMINATION FORM
(Continuation Sheet)
Description of architecture (3)
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Empire style caps the L. G. Field House (1870) and the prominent tower and bold detailing of the H. F. Williams House (1859) echo other Italianate designs like Henry Austin's noted Morse-Libby House in Portland, Maine. Here the villa walls are clapboard , rather than stone: lacking stone to authenticate the design, wooden siding was laid smoothly to simulate masonry.
Farther along Pomeroy Terrace is located the William Gaylord Villa (1853), a Swiss cottage set deep among the trees and calculated to exploit the picturesque view of the meadows below. Here the bracket, ubiquitous on Pomeroy Terrace and Phillips Place, makes its most ornamental appearance. Board and batten siding, a steeply pitched roof and pronounced overhanging eaves enhance the contrasts of light and shadow on the facade.
Facin~ the Gaylord Villa across Pomeroy Terrace is a splendid sh1.ngle style residence (1890) whose skinlike surface contrasts , ... 'lith the profusion of ornament visible elsewhere on Pomeroy l'errace. Central elements in the design are a co<i.n'ler tower.at the south east and a palladium in the generous northwest gable.
Turning off Pomeroy Terrace onto Hancock Place or Butler Place, one discovers in the Queen Anne and Classical Revival residences a return to the massing of late colonial structures on Bridge Street. Opened in the 18901 s, these connecting streets are of a later period, uniform architectural quality, and form discrete areas as the result of the downward slope of the land as one leaves Pomeroy Terrace.
A third street which today serves as a connector between Pomeroy Terrace and Hawley Street, Phillips Place was the first of the group of streets to be created east of Hawley and south of Bridge Street. Here is located another cluster of mid-nineteenth century dwellings built shortly after the opening of the street in 1847. Two dwellings (c. 1850) of retarditaire styling, with quoining, hipped roofs, and vaguely Federal antecedents are located at the base of the street. A tiny but fully articulated Swiss cottage (1850) designed by Pratt faces a second cottage design (1865) and a bracketed style (1853). One then encounters several modest structures of contemporary construction and appropriate scale before reachin2 the late Federal ( 1848) C. M. Kinney House, perhaps the oldest~structure in Phillips Place, and the 1893 J. Reid House, designed by Putnam & Bayley of Northampton. The porches, turrets, and shingled effects in this Queen Anne structure adapt its considerable mass to the scale of the earlier structures. -The exuberant asymmetry of the Reid House contrasts nicely vnth the crisp geometry of the single Greek Revival structure in Phillips Place. Although lacking a free-standing portico, the structure features corner pilasters, closed p edirnent, and a precisely denti llated cornice.
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H A TIONAL REGISTER 0 F HISTORIC pLACES COUNTY
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Description of architecture (4)
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At the junction of Phillips Place and Pomeroy Terrace theM. M. French House (1850) is a similar mass virtually submerged by later Victorian porches, bays, and moldings. To the south is a cottage structure (1853) drawn from the designs of Andrew Jackson Downing; to the north a sturdy shingled barn (1873), once a tearoom, now serves as a residence.
The remaining section of Pomeroy Terrace was opened later in the nineteenth century to connect the neighborhood with Bridge Street and here the more vertical masses and decorative shingling of the Queen Anne style predominate. The residence ( 1885) built for Edgar Crooks, superintendent of Bel dings Silk Hills, combines various elements of the style-prominent and ornamental chimney, tower, shingling, and sunburst motifs in one of the more elaborate designs of C. H. Jones, a local architect whose first profession as a painter o:f frescoes in the valley influenced his light and decorative treatment of
·the Queen Anne i:diom. The glass beading and cast metal panels incorporated into these designs represent the increased availability of these materials created by Victorian technology.
Beyond the Crooks House looms the 1895 Draper Mansion, corner of Bridge Street and Pomeroy Terrace, whose turrets, gables, and porte-cochere allude to the French ehateau. Designed by Curtis G. Page, the massive residence is ideally sited at an angle in Bridge Street and unfolds to the viewer. Small scale siding and continuous garland and swag ornament unify the whole. ·
Sharing the view of the meadows are an 1870 Italian villa and the 1859 Seth Hunt House. Juxtaposed are flat roofs and steep gables, sunny bays and brooding eaves, regular fenestration and the drama of the gothic, symbolizing the incredible . ..._ range of influences and formulae for the Victorian residence. (.~NO)
Adjoi ning---t-he--Ge th:i e Re·v3:val Hunt Heuse i: s a compact, s il'lg1-e---s-te-Fy-~-bu.nga10w--(-1-9-±~}--whe·s-e--t-v-~en ti e t-A.-eer-r-Etll:Y-e-ri gin is .. si-gnal-1-e--0""-b:y---i t-s- ca-su..a-1-- ambi anoe--ar::t-d-t-0-e- -r>-ro-e-se-r:H~e- ·- o f a similarly style-d- garage -as--the-.ffi.-gR'i~f-i€&fl-t--eut-l;rtl-i-tding. The hipp.ed .roof. sweep.s ... down . .t.o.enclose ... a g.e.ner.o.u-s-po-r-ch---and a single hoo cled dormer appe.a-r-s--i-n--ea-ch---s-1o'fl-et---ba-Bk-s--o-f- windows adffii-t light to-- the we-11-shaded--i-nterio r. A -second bungalow was built from the same plans on Pomeroy Terrace about 1920.
By-.P.a-r-se-r1-s---~-t-r-e-e-t one rea c he s Ch e ;t;:..r'ra-n-Gl-Utl-iG:n-------St-r-ee t s • Ranging frcmk.a_ gambr~l roofed colonial n~neteenth century tenement~-~he stru ~r-e are uniform in their modest stylino ~~-- The early 1800's are widely re r ea in stru~ Who~ massing and simple entranceway details allud 'Ehe Federal ana--Gr~ Revival styles. The occasi ater nineteenth centurv str~~ures represent later di sions of originally generous house lots.---· .... --.. ~~----
In the midst of this neighborhood and facing ·a -Greek
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
STATE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY
INVENTORY· NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY
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(Continuation Sheet) -----------+------!
(Number all entrle&) Description of architecture (5)
RevLval with full portico is the Hampshire CountY, /House of Carre tion (1853). Located on a parcel extendi from Union to Che ry Streets, this institutional building s, while unobtru ·ve, the focal point in the area. De gned by Boston architect G. J. F. Bryant, the jail consists f a service core with two r ctangular wings and was an exper· ental design for a penal ins · tution by Bryant's firm which . lanned a total tYXJ dozen sue complexes. Crisp cold ston lintels delineate openings in ttl tvarm brick surfaces; tall windows admit light to three tiers f cells and a narrow eat'ng and recreational area~ A cupola ises above the neighbo ng stru9tures and serves, as a marke in the northerly por. ion of yhe proposed histori.c district. ~
W'e..st of the H use of Correction 011 Che ry Street, is located tpe 1851 res dence of VI. F. ratt. . gothic cottage once ador~d with per endicular boa d and b/tten siding, the Pratt cotta~e is comoa t and less 'tastefu,l:" (the adjective consistently\ used by" th Hampshir _ Gazett}i to describe Pratt's designs) thart the reside ces ted on Pomeroy Terrace a£ter Pratt's design /
From the descev{ds l:'larket Street where commercial and sidential s s are housed in a variety of structures rangin from earl wooden/dwellings to late nineteenth century bri·k blocks a~d ten¢rnents. The visual rhythm created by the faca\i.es of los~ly _spaced gable-end Greek Revivals is picked up by he gal:(l~'s and bays of apartment structures on Graves ve ue, ope\(ed late in the nineteenth century. Near the cor r of Mayk~t & Bridge Streets is nestled another early survival cally.· )<no~ as the ''Half House," whose narrow window opening a thin lin els are of early colonial constructiono / \
Crossing the ather ,weloped i'\ltersection of Bridge, Hawley, and Market Streets ,1 ne encourtters a similar mixture of residential an commerctar here industrial-uses appropriat to an area adjoi ing the jail ,ad track~\and depot in a VictoN rian town. On arket an Hawlex Streets,\one is always aware of the proxim' y of the railroad\ the elev~tecl railroad bed isolating th~neighbo ood from t\e adjacen~ central business district an,d creatin a sense of intimacy a:1d physically defining -t;l'le histor· c district. On\the weste ly side of Hawley Street b:clck facto y structures face \"a series f clapboard residen1es which re the homesteads ;ta't:er divid _d to create Phillips and But er Place and Hancock and W:Llliaf\)s Street. Delicate decor,a'tive work appears in the \~ntrance~ys of several of tbfese dweL,{ings. The fluted pilasters\and inse{: sidelights ?f."~he ?utlfl:. Homestead (1848) ri;ral those, of ~he p\res~igious El~Jah Hunt M~lls House (1812) bu~lt a generatlon earl~er and ~,:rl high .Fideral style on Elm Street. Sever\al Federal residence
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INVENTORY ·NOMINATION FORM
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Description of architecture ( 6)-
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wi th taut facacies .. atH:l--si::""tecron--sma..t._J. kno 11 s on Hawley Street have a distinctly nautical flavor, .. particul~rt'y that at 94 Hawley Street, w~e:);:'e a cupola aboye hippe,9/roof keeps the watch.over'"·Hawt·ey~~"tf-eet.. .·J • /""
At Eastern AvehU:~ an"' earl/y tenem~t structure ( 1890) extending half the len'g_th of <the s:r;,re'et provides the visual terminus for the distric't... The,_.,c6.rner turret and gracefully turned railings of the QJ.l'~em }\:tlne style are characteristic of attempts to includ:,/{n tft:€., first tenement structures references to the pr · aiuDg b'l,lrrents of taste.
Below Eastern vepde lies -~ brick_ residence (c. 1840) whose rational pr· c~,r-tions and fi\lle clas.sical cornice demand its inclusion.~.· n_"'_4:· he .. Damon-Pratt ~strict_. The late dating of this structure is indicative of he en~urance in .North.~t""ne· re-st-rained classi ism o'j the Federal and Greek Re~var styles._________ --
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2. Town NORTHAlv!PTON
Street address 46 Bridge Street
Name Isaac Damons House
Use: original & present _h_o......,m_e_-_n_.o_w_tl_u_s_e_um __ _
Present owner Northampton Historical Society
Open to public_Y_e_s ___________ _
Date 1812 Style Federal
Source of date The Northampton Book
Architectrs~~.a~.c~D~a~m~o~n ____________________ _
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4. DESCRIPTION
'()UNDATION/BASEMENT: High Regular~ Material -"""b..._r .... i,.,cl ...... { ____________ _;
\VALL COVER: Wood------------- Brick Stone Other ------------------
ROOF: Ridge Gambrel Flat Hip Mansard-----------------------Tower Cupola Dorme~ndows Balustrade Grillwork---'-----------------
CHIJYINEYS: 1 2 3 4 Center End Interior Irregular Cluster Elaborate
STORIES: 1 ~ 3 4 ATTACHMENTS: Wings §.!l. Shed kitchen a.nd carriage shed
PORCHES: 1 2 3 4 -------------PORTICO _ __,y'-'e::..:s=-------..wB""a .... l c ...... o.u.n.I.:Jy
FACADE: Gable end: Front/side Ornament _______________________ _
Entrance: Side aont: Cente,r,/Side Details: --"c~o...~.l.l.iumw.n.u.;;:,.s __________________ _
Windows: Spacing: Regular/Irregular Identical/Varied-------------------
Corners: Plain Pilasters Quoins Cornerboa:tds ------------------------ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - -- - - - - - - - - - - -- - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - --5. Indicate location of building in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings
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6. Footage of structure from street ___ ....,..,_ __ _ Property has 70 feet frontage on street
Recorder Miriom E. Peters. Richard C. Cote.
For· The Northampt.an Hi st.or; ca] Society
Photo# ____ _ Date __ _.l9~7~0~------------
SEE REVERSE SIDE
RELATION OF SURROUNDING TO STRUCTURE ( . f:
} Outbuildings ______________________________ _
2. Landscape Features: Agriculture Qpen Wooded Garden: Formal/Informal Predominant features rare s~.its, flo7Ters Landsqape archlrect~~~la~ry~~P~·-C~r~a~fut~s~--------------------------------------------
3. Neighboring Structures Style: Coloni!! Federal Greek Revival Gothic Revival Italian Villa Lombard Rom.
Venetian Gothic Mansard Richardsonian Modern
Use: Residential Commercial Religious Conditions: Excellent Good Fair Dereriorated
-------~----~---~-*----~~--------------~------------~--GIVE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE OF SITE (Refer and elaborate on
theme circled on front of form)
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Isaac Damon 3 an architect of national renovrn, constructed this imposing structtu·e for hi:::; oVIn home in 1812. Damon erected, beside the house, 13 churches, 25 bridges and 11 other buildings in addition to several notable factories. The house Vias naturally built in the best fashion of the day, since Damon studied un3er Towne and Benjamin, and thus earned for himself and his house national recognition ..
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BIBLIOGRAPHY AND/OR REFERENCE
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Putnam, Karl The Northampto!l. Bgok, Part mii Cp. 17- p.lu6
Springfield Un~on Aug .. 29, 1959 Picture and a rticle
Merrill, David Oliver Isaac Damon and the Architecture of the Federal Period in N"ew England (Yaie Ph.D .. dissertation, 1965')
··Ann· :A:rbor;·-trn~sity· Mi-cro-films, 1965"···· (Comprehensive bibliography in this work)
RESTRICTIONS __________________________________________________________ ~
Ori~nruOwner: __ I~s~aa~c~·-D~am~o~n--~~------------~~---Deed Information: Book Number-.:.9_8..:..3 __ Page _ ___.;.3_7_8, __ J_Tam--=-p_sh_i_r_e _____ Registry of Deeds
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Architectural reason for inventorying: a~e ;:-;nd style . .
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dress 57 Bridge Street
throp-Butler House
iginal & present-~::;:..:_ ______ _
; owner August Woicekoski
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:.e 18L.O 1 s Style Greek. Revival ( so11ther11)
uv-.. ... w of date The Northampton Book
Architectfrom a book of plans on Southerri _a,.rc::.hit.sc.tur.s _________________ _
··~------OR part of Area# -----'-------------- ·--- .-·------------------------------------------3. CONDITION Excellent Good Fair Deteriorated Moved Altered Added ___________ "
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\lUNDATION/BASEMENT: High Regular Low Material __ -=..::..::.:c=.... __________ _
\VALL COVER: Wood Brick Stone Other -------------
ROO?: Ridge Gambrel Flat Hip Mansard-----------------------Tower Cupola J5'0r'iller windows Balustrade Grillwork ----------------
CHI:i:VIXEYS: 1 2 3 4 Center End ~Q!.. Irregular Cluster Elaborate
STORIES: 1 2 3 4 ATTACHMENTS: Wings Ell Shed----------------
p 0 R C HE S: 1 2 3 4 PORTICO ,4=--c:-:o::--l.:._um....,1_n_:_s ____ J.B.ua:u.l...._.c.uo.l..l..Jny · L pilasters FACADE: Gable end: Front/side Ornament~c=-or=-:n=ic::..:e::.:-s~o:...:.v~e=-r_Vi:.:.l':l..=·n::..d::..o:...:.r.:..::•s::____ _____________ _
Entrance: Side Front: Center/Side Details: ---=.f::_ou.::r=---c::...:o::..:::l=-:m=nn::..:::s _________________ _
Windows: Spacing: Regular /Irregular Identical/Yx..a~J..ruiu;;ei.l.ld'-__________________ _
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Recorder Miriam E. Peters
For Northampton Historical Society 7{) . .;25':J
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_l.~fu~~nP------------~----~---------------~ J. Landscape Features: Agriculture ...Q.p.en Woo:ded Garden: Formalilni'ornia.l
Predominant features Large and beautiful trees\/ · ·· ·• Landscape architect ____________ -,..--..,.,._--~-----,...,----------
3,. Neighboring Structures Style: Colonial Federal Greek Revival Gothic Revival Italian Villa Lombard Rom.
Venetian GOthic Mansard Richardsonian Modern
Use: Residential Commercial Religious Conditions: Excellent Good Fair Deteriorated
GIVE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE OF SITE (Refer and elaborate on theme circled on front of form) This is the firs·b home of three to be built from the same plans. It vras until recently om~ed by Col .. and Mrs .. Dwight Hughes., She is the great-great- granddaughter of the original occupant. J. Stebbins Lathrop, born and educated in riest Springfield, was a businessman and resident of Savannah, Georgia until the stat of the Civil War 11 coming North summerst1. His wife Elizabeth brought a book of plans on Southern architectt~e to Northampton which was used for this home. After confiscation by the Federal governn1ent, the Lathrops 1 home was purchased for them at public auction by a friend, Osm)~ Baker. The family returned to their hone after the vrar from Car.ada where they had fled, since Lathrop. preferred not to fight against a brother in the Confederate Army. ·
Osmyn Baker was a lcnvyer, the first President of Smith Charities and a Trustee of Clarks School. He was the 1e ading spirit in the founding of the Hampshire County Lao. Library and also the Northampton Public Library. He built the house at 78 Pomeroy Terrace from the same architectural planso
The P.resent orr.ners bou~ht the house in 1966.
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND/OR REFERENCE
Tlw Northampton Book (1954)
Dai;t.v Hampshire Gazette January 2h, 1970
RESTRICTIONS ____________________________________________________________ ~/~)
Original Owner: J, Stebbins Lnthrop Deed Information: Book Number ____ Page __ _ _ ________ Registry of Deeds
.......,..,.,......,...W¥-_.,•;;.~i~ '<.-Yic~hlt.l~~ Architectural ieasori for irl.verito:ryiri~: oldest. house in the town- age- s vyle
treet address 58 Bridge Street.
·arne Cornet Joseph Parsons Eouse ·
Tse: original & pre sent -=::.~""-----'~.!------!eadquarters of the Northrunpton Historical ?resent owner Soci_ety-1Iusettr:l ~orthampton Histo~:j_cal Society ppen to public_. -'---Y=e=s'---'-------'----'----~---
}ate- 16.5'8 Style 17th c. Colonial ~ wing 1800
.1urce of date local tradition
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4. DESCRIPTION
ROO !3!~!!.. Gambrel Flat Hip Mansard -----------------------Tower Cupola Dormer windows Balustrade Grillwork----------------
CHil\1:\ EYS: 1 2 3 4 1~~ End Interior Irregular Cluster Elaborate
STORie.:S: 1 2 3 4 ATTACHMENTS: Wings Ell Shed (Library)
PORCHES: 1 2 3 4------------- PORTICO yes:;... plain columns Balcony 19th c. addition
FACADE: Gable end: Front/side Ornament _________________________ _
Entrance: Side Front: Cenj:~.!)Side Details:----------:--------------
Windows: Spacing: J1~lar/Irregular, IdenticalfVaried --------------------
Corners: ~Pilasters Quoins Cornerboards ----------------------
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6. Footage of structure from street _.=:L,. ____ _
Property has 60 feet frontage on street
Recorder Miriam E. Peters. Oliver 'ii. Larkin 1. E. Wikander Forl'Jorthampton Historica.l Societ~r
Photo# ____ _ Date ----=19'--''l'-"0'-----
SEE REVERSE STu::::
RELATION OF SURROUNDING TO STRUCTURE
lo Outbuildings ________________ ~------------..;_~_;.-4;.~
-.? ( ... Landscape Features: Agriculture Open Wooded ~c.ten: Forma.Jllnfori:ria:l Predominant feate..1res o~kl' eJm, nmp1r.> i·.re"!s-,,~,0 .· \. Landscape architect ·
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3" Nek~::;',"1~~~~:'a'itu~=~eral Greek Revival Gothic Ril~Y.#\ilbiJian 'Iilla ~i~~a1d !\Om. •·
Venetian GothicMa.nsard Richardsonian lY.lo(,iern ··
Use: Residential Commercial Religious --- Conditions: E:"cellent 9.2..99.... Fair Deteriorated
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GIVE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE OF SITE (Refer and elaborate on theme circled on front of form)
"To Yiert !-'ortham':!ton archi·C.ecJtiure is t,o vievr the Northam::/c,on His'c.oricnl Society' o ?'.:-.!·sons House. The house ref'lec·~s the architecture of t.:n•ce centuries of American c:c:c::lopmcnt... The social, economic and political chan~~::; of three ce:nturies of ~c:~ion.;;.l .c- rmTtb are manifested in ·~1e house 1 s his1~0r'J- from the early ni. tchcra.ft ~~~·i2.l of i.:ary Parsons in 167ti to ·the s.:-.za of the Bliss ft!ilily during tile ~:ictorian .n:;::e of dc•:elop!:lent.. Thus, the Cornet. Joseph Parsons Eouse is truly ";, ho•; se for the tmm11 •
This is the oldes .. v house in Northarapton. It contains portrait:J, furniture and ~·:e<;pon:::, gtmsmi1,hi.r·r; and blacksmithing tools cf Ger.eral Set.h Pomeroy, first. General r.amed by George Washinbton.
Tl-:e fir~t chi1:i in the settlement >7D.S born in this house. It ;1as in the P2reons faJ'!'..:ily for 1.:. generatior.s.. In 1807 mmed by the Wriaht family. In JOO yeurt1 it was owned by onl;r 2 families.. Mi.iS Anna Bliss willed it to the E:i.:3torical Society in 19hlo
Origim:.l kitchen (17th century) and stair\vay.
BIBLIOGRAPHY fu."'D/OR REFERENCE
Tru:i1bt111, James ~i'Y .?!_Not!~a.rt~ptEE 2 v~ 1898
~o!'tharnpton Tercentenary Committee The t~orthe.mpton B~ok k9SL.
Bliss, Anna Co The Oldest Hou~e in Northampton: The Home of Cornet Joseph Parsons .. NoHoSa FUbl'ica.,c.ion- ---
?utnc.m, Karl '!:,.'1e Nori;ham:e_top~!: Part III Chapter 17- p. lh2
Dail,y F.arnzhire Gazette -~~--"-· -------- October 19~ 1953
RESTRICTIONS-------------------------------------------------------------
Ori[;l.nal Owner: Cornet Joseph Parsons Deed Information: Book Number Page Registnr of Deeds
::~ -':.!.e .rt.cquir:;!cl under the will of Anna Cather~,..· n-e--..B""i,..,i,...s~, Hampsnire County Case 2 J971, ) ?i::..<J 13, Febrttary 13, 19h1.
Form B. 10M·6·1l-049688
FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
4. Map. Draw ::>KtrL~u ..,.._ ~--~:... .......
in relation,.to nearest cross str~ets and other buildings. Indicate north. . ·
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ss ___ 6_6 __ B_rL_._dg=e __ S_t_r_e_e_t ________ __
Shepard House
mt use residence/museum
ent owner Northampton Historical
ription: Society
ource Historical Society
a late colonial
lli.tecfsuil t hy, A sahel Pomeroy
Exterior wall :fahri.c .· clap boards
outbuildings (describe ).....;;'·...!:s~h:.::e::.:d=------
Other features 5 bays 1Ni. de; two
interior cbimneys; window cornices;
19th century po:r:ch
Altered porch added Date 19 th cen.
Moved no Date ~~------------- ---------
5. Lot size:
One acre or less x Over one acre
Approximate frontage 7 5 feet
Approximate distance of building from street
5 feet
6. Recorded by c. D..tbie --~----------------------
Organization Northampton Historical Cornmi s sion
Date ____ J;,...;u;.c_n_e__,h""F-l~f""'-'t---~· r_'~'-'·'-' -...... .....--·='\-;--" E::"t.:; ,_ . . .. J
APt( 5 1976
MASS. HIST. COMM.
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~1} 7. Original owner (if known) Asahel Pomeroy
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8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Arc lii tectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
X
X '
Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/
invention Social/
humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) The large, late colonial style house at 66 Bridge Street
is KnoNn as the Shepard House and is no\-1 part of the Northampton Historical Society complex of buildings. The d-vmlling, bui~t: ti'! 1792, fell prey to the various owners' attempts to remodel the residence in accordance vlith the current style· of architecture. Sometime in the e;'l.rly nineteenth century the west facade received a porch supported by columns; later in the century a gothic porch t•Jas introduced iu the south (front) facadeo "
rhe builder, Asahel Pomeroy, ~was a son of General Seth ) Pomeroy, a famous so 1 di er of, the Golonial t·Jars and one of the heroes of Bunker Hill. The house -v;as given to the Historical Society in the t-r.i..ll of Thomas M. Shepard (1856~1923) ..
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10. Bibliography and/or references {such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Representative Families of Northamoton; "S~th Pome'l.·oy1',
lecture by J;homas Honrue o.~hepard; file on Shepard House, Northampton Hi sto rica 1 :;,o ci ety o
FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
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b 32A- 177
Northampton
~ss 74 Bridge Street
First Parish Parsonage
1nt use Residence
.. nt owner Frank Tomaszewski
·iption:
1866 Daily Hampshire Gazette
rrce October 30, 1866
Modified villa style
Arcrutect Wrn. F.o Pratt ----------------------Exterior wall fabric ·clapboard
Outbuildings_ (describe)._-'n.llo.un.L!ec........ _____ _
Other features· central gable; . heavy
dentilated/bracketed- cornice; bold
window comi ces; round window above entranceway
Altered porch added Date ____ _
Moved __ njUlo<o _______ Date ____ _
5. Lot size:
One acre or less _x_ Over one acre __
Approximate frontage 115 feet --~~~~~----
Approximate distance of building from street ~~ c~,. "-1 t A 20 feet
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OrigioaLuse Parish ------------~~~T,~ ..... 7 ..... ~ ... ~~~~~~~----~~------~~
· Subsequent uses (if any) and dates Residence --~~~~~----~----------------------------
8. :-·hemes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal .~_g:;:-icultural
Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
X
Conservation Education Expl<h~tion/
settlement Industry Militarv Political
Recreation Religion Science/
invention Social/
humanitar-ian Transpo:rtati on
9. HistOrical significance (include explanatwn of themes checked above) The First Church erected this pa-rsonage on Bridge Sr:reet
in 1865-6 7, on the site of the previous parish house.. It was reported to cost over $6,000. \~lliam F. Pratt drew the
. ~ t' . 1" .... d . 1 1 1 . . . . . , pLans ~or ne s~mp ~~~e ~ ~a sty e s~ructure; ne arew s~m~~ar plans for ~ "tasty parsonage" for the Catholic Society in the same year. The Catholic Socie~y parsonage, now a funeral home, sr:ill stands on King Street; it was apparently more modest and ccsted about $4, COO.. Pratt fol-lowed a similar plan in the ::::-emodelling of a house for lien::::y Lathrop in 1859 and a house f.or ) Geor~e Sar£-eant: in 1869.. These ;t:\vo str1..1ctures are lo::::atec at 82 B~dge Street and Bridge Street.
The dwellings are COffi?Osed of a single cubic mass '~th low ridge roof and a central gable w~th gentle slope. Beneath ·· ·r · , d h • • · • · · .. trn.. s gao .. e, .a s:Lng-e ra.un ...... eaaea . .w.L:noow. a,gpears 1,1). .. tne. ~~n'"er
of the facade.. Although this central window is uncieccrat:ed, other w-=.~..ndow ooenings have Drominent moldinr=:s anc cornices. A heavy cornice with dentils/brackets is carried across the eaves &!d through the central gable.
10. Bibliog:·aphy and/or references {such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Daily na:rroshire Gazette, October 30, 1866.
Beer1 s 1873 Atlas. · ·
FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
4. Map. uraw sKetcnu1. uuu.u1.u5 ~~u.Hv ..
in relatiori.to nearest cross streets and other builcling~:. Indicate north.
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Northampton
lSS 81 Bridge Street
H. Lathrop House
mt use Residence
:mt owner Stanley F. Gawle
ription:
1790-1809; remodeled 1859 Registry of Deeds
'urce Daily Hampshire Gazette . 3.8.1859
I talianate over federal
_____ .rltect _ __,W!S..I.II-..-OFIL-A.... __.Pk....!!.r.!i!!a~t~t:..;_· _____ _
Exterior wall fabric Clap boards
Outbuildings (describe)_----=-no=n:.::e=------
Otherfeatures 2 stories; flat roof;
Palladian window with later bold
cornice; similar cornice at eaves and on other windows Altered over Date -----Moved no Date
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5. Lot size:
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One· acre or less x Over one acre --
Approximate frontage _ _...,!7_,5!-_;f!:.:e~e~t~-----
Approximate distance of building from street
30 feet
6. Recorded by __ ~C=-=·--=Du:.=.::b:.:i:..:e~-----
Northampton Historical \\/
ctl O~gan~zation £: ~~mm1ss1on Date ____ ...!!Ju.uiL'!lo.J.y~1~0~,-..:!o.1~97~5~---
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Subsequent uses {if any) and dates re~fden.~e --~~~~~~~--------~~~--~~~~~--
8. Themes (check as _many as ~pplicable) 4
Aboriginal. Agricultural Architectural The Arts. Commerce Communication Community development
X
Conservation Education Exploration/ · settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion . Science/
invention Social/
. humanitarian Transportation
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9. Historical significance {include explanation of themes Checked above) -
. .William F. Pratt rede,13igned this early nineteehth century residence in 1859 for He11,cy Lathrop. At about the same time he remodeled a late eighteenth century dwelling across the street and.de$igned two parsonages, for the Catholic and COngregational societies; the net result in each of these four works·was the same: a cubic structure with central gable and heavy cornices on windows .and at the rooflirie. Each structure is vaguely Italianate in feeling; all are still standing, three on Bridge Street and one on King Street. )
The Lathrop house tvas probably originally federal in style. 1
The flat roof, balanced facade, and remains of a Palladian window are revealed on examination. The Federal Style house was built by Asahel Wright between the time of his purchase of ·the 1~ acre plot from his father in 1790 for $300 and the time of re.s sanr·ea James Bull~ rn 1809 for $I3ou. The house t s not earlier than 1790! although a dwelling bouse was mentioned in the 1790 deed
· Dania Stebbins and his family held the parce~ of land and the house until 1859 at which time Daniel Stebbins died and his daughter Clarissa S. Lathrop aqquired the property. She and her husband resided in the bouse through the turn of the century; the deeds were carefully worded to insure that the wife would not be deprived of her property on the death or estrangement of her husband. ·
10. Bibliography and/or references {such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, ·early maps, etc.) Registry of Deeds, Hampshire County, 1572.153, 1372.268,
1371.125, 1125.342, 968.9, 967.494, 639.129, 191.333, 191.334; 73.517, 72.5751 27.402, 31.231, 28.252l 2.577.
Dai y Hampshire Gazette, 3/~/1859, 12/26/1865.
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Geo rg_e, Sergeant · House
nt use Residence
nt owner John Berestka
·iption:
early 19th c; :remodeled 1869 Daily Hampshire Gazette
rrce · 3/30Z1869··fO'··'J. , .i late coleftial restyled in mid nineteenth. centucy
Exterior wall fabric-'-L'!wo=-"'o'""d,.__-'-------
Outbuildings (desc:r-ibe)....:--·=n:.:::;o.:.:n:.:::e::.-._ ______ _
Other'features renovation: round heade
Window added in c~ll.tei' of facade; 2
stocy porch- creates central gable
Altered remodeled 1869Date 1869
Moved no Date --~--~------------ ----------
5. Lot size:
One acre or less _x __ Over one acre
Approximate frontage 7 5 feet -----=~~~------
Approximate distance of building from street
20 feet
Recordedby_~C~·~Du~b~i~e~--------------
Organization Northamtpon Historical Commission
Date June 2, 1975 -------------~---------------
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8. Themes ~check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architecwral 7he Arts Commerce
Conservation Education Expioration/
settlement
R.ecrea:Eion Religion Science/
invention
Com r:nunication Community development
Industry Militarv Political
Social/ humanitarian
T:·ansportation
9. Historical significance (include explanatiOn of ther:r:l:~S checked above) The dwelling at 82 Bridge Str€;!et demonstrates the att:$mpt
o£ the local archi teet to enrich, in Victorian s!:yle, a modest colonial style dwellingo Wrn. F. Pratt remodeled the Sargeant in 1869, adding a 2 story porch w~th columns supporting rounded archeso The UDoer storv of the porch terminates in a central gable so that the total·v~sual e!£ect of the facade is not unlike that of the residence at 74 Bridge Street) for wbich Pratt drew the plans •
The Ser~e~~t fa~ilv acauired the propertv on Bridge s~reet """"" .., - ... .. "'
in 1863. It: was ureviouslv th~ ho!nestead of t~!oses Clark of ,... ....... ...... .. h d -., ..... , ·n .-t h ... ... 4 ..... J.'iOrt...narnp~..on, ana .. a passea ~-.nroug ~..ne .. a..J.as o:: · o-..ner indi vi d>.J.als between 1825 and 1863. (A Horace Lyman O\v-ned the
. 18 ?5 h . . ... . h 1 ,..J • .... t • . 1 ·'' ~ 1 ' ... prooerty J.n :.... ) at w :i-cn ~..J.me ~..e so ..... J.:... o .n.sane_ .n..o,e.L._, ou:.. the· deed does not readily trace £ut:her .hack .. J In .te~s o£ the general style of the =esiden~~, it is likeley that the structure was built in the late 18th or early 19th century.
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.)
Daily Hampshire Gazetce, Harch 30, 1869 ..
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109 Bridge Street:
Residence-Tailor Shop
Martin Paddock
c.1875
Exterior wall fabric Clapboard
:outbuilcif!lgs (d~scribe) 1 rie~. ga ra 8t9
hipped roof; tower
with four roun'd windOws; bays west
and south; ·single elaborate chimney
Altered additions to Date -----rear Moved no Date
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One acre or less x Over one acre
Approximate frontage 100 feet
Approximate distance of building from street
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· 6. Recorded by Em:tl1 Clausing, .c. Dubie
fi Cf: / ~~"i~~atiOn .Nor~hamp ton Hi sto ri cal
J/·'AI ~ate May 15, 19 7 5 IJJfW 4 1975
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Original use
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
.
X --
X
Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/
invention social/··
humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above)
10.
Although a residence of similar style v1a.s designed by \.Jm. F. Pratt and built for Wm. La-w-rence on Pomeroy Terrace in 1856, the Italianate residence at 109 Bridge Street was not erected until after 1873. (The house does not appear on the 1873 Atlas)o Seth Hunt, original owner of the gothic residence to the north, sold the villa style house and 1/4 acre of land to Mary Ann Cochran in' 1878 (Registry of Deeds, 339.372). '
The massing of the Bridge Street Italianate residence is idel3.tical to that of the Pomeroy Terrace residence. The treatment of the facade in ,the 1875 house is much cleaner and more organized than in the 1856, house. Elimination of the braqkets at the cornice line of roof and bays and use of small,er, flatter cornices over the windows result in a more taut and·unified facade. The use of t~ single round window in. the tower story is more effec.tive than .. the paired roundheaded t~ndows in the 1856 house; the extension of the roofline and cornice through the tower section mo.re effectively joins the· tower to the body of the house.
Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Reo-istry of Deeds Ramoshire County:
967o279, 967.2~0, 494.255, 339.405~ 339.372, 336.366, 321.441, .180~334, 180. 293 ..
1873 Beer's Atlas; 1884 Walker's Atlas.
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ress 115 Bridge Street
Seth Hunt House
~sent use Residence --------------------------
1859 Daily Hampshire
Source March 8, 1859
Victorian Gothic
Other features 2~ stories; elaborate
chimneys;. patterned roof tiles and
corn~r entrance
Altered no Date --~~--~--~- ~--------
Moved no Date -----5. Lot size:
One acre or less __ Over one acre __x.___
Approximate frontage_---"'-1=5..:.0.......-f_,.e""'e'""'t"---------
Approximate distance of building from street
50 feet
6. Recorded by Emmy Clausing, C. Dubie
.·.. ... . Organization N'orthampton Hi storj cal
..__ ________ _. £C£JV't'"'f!jfe10n May 15; 1875
JUN,ovf':£)/975
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Subsequent uses (if any) and
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community deve]opment X
Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Military Political·
Recreation li,(;3ligiQI1 Science/
invention Social/
humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (inc1ude expJanatwn ofthemes checked above)
This well-developed Victorian Gothic residence \.Jas built
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in 1859 for Seth Hunt, president of the Connecticut River Railroad. Local architect William Fo Pratt designed the house, and introduced into the design a corner doorway which he later used in a house off of South Street. (This second house, a bracketed style, survive: The Seth Hunt house is massiv~, asymetrical, and irregular. in itt; massing.. Gables, three fine chimneys, and the tiled cupola ) produce a strong vertical· emp-hasis.. A number of roundheaded windows have been covered withrrectangular screens and stormwindows, but the character of the house is not greatly diminished by this alteration .. ......... ... §~t;h !!P:.!!t.P.1lX.cb.asg.d.J;he .. three .. acre tract og .. land .. 11with buildi~gs
·thereon'' from J .. Stebbins Lathrop in 1858, for $2, 900 .. (Registry of Deeds, 180 9 334o) In 1859 his new house was built, and in 1865, was attributed to ~~" F., Pratt in the Daily Hampshire Gazettee The house, with its distinctive corner entranceway, is indicated on. the 1873 Atlas.. In 1875, Hunt took out a mortgage on the three acre tract, and later repurchased a t acre section prior to his. sale of the section and house u~on it to Mary Ann Cochran in 1878 .. (Registry of Deeds, 339.372.)
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.)
Registry of Deeds Hampshire County, 180.334, 180.293, .321.441, 336.366, 339.372, 4,2.349~ 488.153, 491.325, 600.53, 777.513, 777ol05.,
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Subsequent uses (if any) anddates ________________ ~------------------------------
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultlll":al Architectural The Arts Commerce C ommunica.tion Community development
Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/
· invention Social/
humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanatwn of themes checked above)
In 1886 Henry Staplin, a Mian St. milliner, purchased parts of lot 1 and 2 on the eastern side of Pomeroy Terrace. These lots resulted from the subdivision of the Samuel Wright estate in 1884. Mr. gtaplin ne~er seems to have lived in this house and probably had it,constructed for rental property. It is one of the most decorative double houses in Northampton, and is the only such .. house on Pomeroy Terrace.
The house features a two-story, three-sided bay at either end of the facade. The northern one is capped by a large gable with recessed porch, while the southern one is capped by a polygonal roof. A two-story porch separates the two b~ys <:md graces the entrance. It's CC)mpOsed df turned oosts with cut..;,out brackets and a cut-out balustrade~ . - .
10. Bibliography :1nd/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc. ) ..
1884 and 1895 Atlases. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 401-P. 72. Northampton Directory: 1885-86, 1895-96.
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;ent residence
;ent owner Cerruti. ----~--~--~~--------
:::ription:
:ource Reg. of Deeds and Atlas
clapboard
Outbuildings (de scr-ibe)-"'-_.;..;..'---__;;_~~--
Other features --------------------
Altered Date ---------------- ------------Moved Date ----------------- ----------
5. Lot size:
One acre or less Over one acre --Approximate frontage ------------------Approximate distance of building from street
6. Recorded by~_E_._L_o..._n_e_r;g:.....a_n __ -.,.-"-----
Organization ____ .:::.NH=C=----------
Date il 1980
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Subsequent uses (if any} anddates----------------~--~------------------------------
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/
rnverition Social/
humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanat10n of themes checked above)
In 1886 Henry Staplin, a Mian St. milliner, purchased parts of lot 1 and 2 on the eastern side of Pomeroy Terrace. These lots resulted from the subdivision of the Samuel Wright estate in 1884. Mr. Staplin ne~er seems to have lived in this house and probably had it,constructed for rental property. It is one of the most decorative double houses in Northampton, and is the only such .. house on Pomeroy Terrace.
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) The house features a tw~-story, three-sided bay at either end
of the facade. The northern one is capped by a large gable with recessed ?Orch, while the southern one is capped by a polygonal r~of. A two-story porch separat,:s the .. two ~ays and graces the el'ltrailce .. It's. sor_np<Jsed of turned posts with c\lt--out brackets and a cut-out ~balustr.ade.
10. Bibliography 3.nd/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps. etc.) "
1884 and 1895 Atlases. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 401-P. 72. Northampton Directory: 1885-86, 1895-96.
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FORM B BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
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nt use Residence
mt owner Walter Barrows
:-iption:
1915-1929 Registry of Deeds,
>Urce 860.116, 710.360
Bungalow
itect · un'knch.m
Exterior wall fabric..;....;;. .... 'WO.:a.. ~o~d!...;;..;.' _:__~---
Outbuildings (describe )---tg~a~r~a=.,g;,ceSL--:..... ___ _
Other features with low --~~~~~~L-~~~~!-
roof; dormer; porch beneath sweep of
Altered no Date --~~---------- ~~-------
Moved. __ ..::n.:::o::...._ _____ Date--'------
5. Lot size:
Less than one acre x Over one acre ---
Approximate frontage 50 feet
Approximate distance of building from street
25 feet
6. Recorded by __ C~. ~Ill=b=i-=e:__ ______ _
Organization Commission Date
Northampton Hi sto rl cal
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8. Themes (elK'ck as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Conservation Hecreation ----Agricultural Education Heligion Architectural -- Exploration/ Science/ _____K __ The Arts settlement invention Commerce ----·· Industry Social/ Communication Military Humanitarian ----Community development Political Transportation
9. Historical Significance (include explanation of themes cheeked above)
This early twentieth century bungalow is similar in style to one at 127 Bridge Street. The bung,qlow \vas a late arrival on Po:neroy .Terrace qnd is surrounded by later nineteenth century Queen Anne style· residences. These earlier, basically vertical structures accentuate the horizontal massing of the bungalov1.,
A low hipped roof unifies chimney, porch, and the body of the structure., Pillars support the porch roof; the roof is broken by lo\v dormers in the north, south, and west facades. The chim...'1ey in the northerly facade is a prominent element in the design and is executed in fieldstone. The bungalow style often 1 ·
incorporated a number of materials including shingles and stoneworK J into a structure small in si.ze a11d infotinal in feeling.
This bungalo\v was constructed betNeen 1915 and 1930. A Thomas Ryan purchased portions of the t,.;o adjoining lots in 1915 and sold the new lot to George Briscollo Briscoll' s executor _§_QJ<:LJgr $~,5()() t:h~ p.::~.rcel q£ land~Wi.th or 1\-ri.thout bungalow.-,.. in 1929. The price may reflect an undeveloped lot or it may merely reflect the sale of a portion of an estate. If not erected prior to the 1929 sale, the bungalow was undoubtedly constructed soon after. The same set of house plans may well have served for this residence and for that at 127 Bridge Street. Marcus \Jhiffen notes in American Architecture Si~ce 1780 that plans might be obtained for as little as five dollars.
10. Bibliognlphy and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.)
tA..arcus Whi ffen, American Architecture, A Guide to the Styles, P• 217-221.
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FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION nffiP.P. of the Secretarv. State House. Boston
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Edgar Crooks House
mt use Residence
~ht owner Andrew Tymaczko
:-iption:
1885-86 DailY. Hampshire Gazette
urce 2/1671886
Queen Anne
.tln.arltect C. H. ·Jones d scallop shingl•
Exterior wallfabric. woo - clapboards
Outbuildings (describe)_· -·=g:,-a"""r_a.;.o,g.._e ____ _ . .
btherfea:tures tower; tile roof; wall
surface thin clcip boatels and shingles
carved frieze at cornice; sunburst motifs
Altered additions, reaDate -----Moved no Date
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One acre or less X Over one acre
Approximate frontage 1 00 feet
Approximate distance of building from street
15 feet
6. Recorded by __ c_._ll.l_b_i_e _________ _
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Date May 15, 197 5 4 1975
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8. Themes (check as many as applicab.le)
Aboriginal Agricultural Arc ill tectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/ .. invention
Social/ humanitarian
Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) This Queen Anne house was designed by Co H. Jones,
local artist and architect, for E .. F .. Crooks. The local paper described the house as 11modern, elegant ...... Gothic and Queen Alu1e 11 • No paint was to be used in the interiors which were to contain'much fine wood. The treatment of the wall surface on the exterior lends a lightness tothe considerable mass of the structure. Thin clapboards and shingles break up the wall surface as do the various shapes and sizes of windows. Ornament is rich and highly curvilinear: Scrolled _}\ brackets support the second story in the south facade; similar brackets app-ear in the front.,(west) facade. A wide carved frieze and two stamped metal plaques at the entranceway employ rich curvilinear designs. The tO\ver' although -~·:-ell integrated into the mass of the house, is prim and angular--a. feature soohto· be omitted from first class residences ..
Crooks, the original owner of the residence, was the. superineendent of Belding Brothers & Company~ Silk Manufacturers.
Co H. Jones designed a number of houses in the Northampton . area.
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as-. local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.)
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FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
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!ription: Moli.toris
188,5~86
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Moved Date ----------------- ----------
5. Lot size:
One acre or less Over one acre
Approximate frontage -------------------Approximate distance of building from street
6. Recorded by E. Lonergan
Organization NHC
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Subsequent uses (if any) and dates ___ __,__..=.;:.:=-====-~(,...lo..:.8=....9~3"""'l __________ _
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectura:l The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion
· Science/ invention
Social/ humanitarian
Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above)
In 1885 David Crafts and Edwin Clapp bought lot 5 of the Samuel Wright estate subdivision. Within a year this house had been erected and was serving as a rectory for St. John's Episcopal Church. ~~a. Crafts and Clapp wanted ~o retain ownership until thei~ net costs of· $5715.25 (which included $1300 for the land) had been repaid. This took until 1889, when the church took ownership. In 1893 the property was sold to Dr. William Spencer, a local dentistso who maintained his ) residence here.
Decorative shingles are used for contrast on the house, as are wide boards, and t;>anels separating the first and second floor double win-dows on the ·facade.· . The front gable s decorated with a collar braCe, king post and pendant.
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10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps. etc. )
1884 and 1895 Atlases.
Registry of Deeds: Bk. 463-P. 147, 424-279, 401-9, 394-43# Northampton Directory: 1895-96.
FORM B - BUILDING
:MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
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M. M. French residence
nt use Residence
nt owner Melinda Talkington
iption:
ao dy of house c. 1848; extensive ns, June 1870 tree Registry of Deeds,
Daily Hampshire Gazette
:ect additions by Wm. F. Pratt
Exterior wall fabric wood boards
c5utbl.l.ilding§ (describe)...:.. __ . n~o_n.-........;.e ____ _
Other features ~~~~~~~~-------
bay Windows and entrance; porches;
bold window cornices. various additions
Altered · Date 1870 -----
Moved no Date ------~~------ --------
5. Lot size:
One acre or less X Over one acre --Approximate frontage 110 feet
IF? C £: { V £: Q Approximate distance of building from street
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8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
_x. __ _
X
Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/
invention Social/
humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above)
M. M. French was one of the first individuals to purchase a lot of land in Phillips Place in 1847. He paid fi 500 to Abigail Clarke for.nlots # 9 and 10 as marked on a plan dravm by wm. F. Pratt, Archi teet and recorded 119.201."
'It is uncertain whether Pratt designed the original core of the present structure. Pratt designed extensive additions to the house in 1870: ''M. M. French proposes to enlarge his already elegant residence, Phillips Place (Pomeroy Terrace), by an addition of several feet to the front and two bay windo\>Js,. after designs drawn by w. F. Pratt.'' It is the bold scale of these additions, primarily ~o the front, west facade, which make the house of architectural interest. The added porch, entr~nceway, and bay are heavily corniced and the door and bay are fully pedimented. Second story windows and the round headed wirfdow irf the attic story have heavy cornices stlpported by ·chunky bracket So
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) ·
Registry of Deeds, Hampshire County, I80lo303, 990.179, 850.452, 747.484, 119.218. Daily Hampshire Gazette, June 7, 1870o
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FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION nffi~P. of the Secretary, State House, Boston
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House, Pomeroy Terrace
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c. 1847 Registry of Deeds
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.itect unknown
Exterior wall fabric wood ----~-------------
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Outbuildings (describe) _____ n_o_n_e _______ _
Other features Hipped roof with
bracketed overhang; prominent cupola
later bay and porch
Altered additions Date ____ _
Moved no Date --------------- ---------Lot size:
One acre or less _x __ Over one acre
Approximate frontage _ _...L7%5:.._.r,f..soe;s;eu.t.__ ___ _
[-: / V Approximate distance of building from street
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B. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Arcltitectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
C onservatiori Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Military Political
----· Recreation Religion Science/
invention Social/
humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) This residence on Pomeroy Terrace was first occupied
by Reverend Rufus Ellis who did not, however, own the dwelling or the land on which it was built. Edv-1ard Clarke sold the land and house, "the premises ••• being the ~omestead for many years past occupied by Reverend Rufus t.llis,. to t-'f.ary Ann Cocnran in 1853. The Clarke family opened Phillips Place in 1847 shortly following the death of Christopher Clarke, and lot 11 (48 Pomeroy Terrace) was vacant. at that time. (Registry of Deeds !19.201.)
AlthOugh 'tqe decorative features of the house allude to the bracketed styles of the mid century, the massin~ of the house relates it to the Federal style. It is poss~ble t~at the clerg~an 1 s prim homestead was later updated by more stylish or sophisticated ownerso
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.)
Registry of De.eds, Hamsphire County: 3 78 .. 427, 292.81, 27 5o49, 152.321. . , Beer's 1873 Atlas, Walkers 1884 Atlas of Northampton~
!'·ORM B - BUILDING
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William Gaylord l.iouse
~nt use College Church, Inc.
:mt owner The Colleie: Church, Inc.
ription:
1849-1850 Registry of Deeds,
urce Paily Hampshire Gazette
Sw:i ss Cottage
itect Wat. Fetino Pra·tt
o.~r})uildings (de~cribe) lafge structure .·· .. · ...... ·.... . rear
Otherfeatures board & batten siding;
brackets and vergebbard trim; 2 smal
balcohies; ornate chimneys.
Date --~~--------- ~--------
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One acre or less Over one acre x
Approximate frontage 185 feet ------~~~~~--
Approximate distance of building from street
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Residence
Suosequ~m uses (if any) and dates ;te?igence; Nor.~~'Ui!'tor. School fo'!' ,q~rl s, --~~~~--~~~~~~----------~~~~~
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal A g:ricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
Conservation Education Exploration/ .. settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/ -invention
Social/ humanitarian
Transpo:nati on
9. Historical significance (include explanatwn of themes checked above)
This S\ci..ss Cottage on Pomeroy Ter~ace was designed by. t:trn. F. P=at:'l:, local architect, and built between 13.49 and 1353, pro'bably in 1850. Thor.:as Green, the original ow-ner, bought the principal parcels of la.."1d from J. H.. 3utler and H. Clarke in 1849; his hornescead was built by 1853, at tvhich time he acquired additional sections o£ land from various indiv"'iciuals. A second Sw-iss Cottage was built &..::.ring this period on Pnillio s Place., "'. .
.william Gaylord purchased the residence in 1860 fo:: $8,000, anc _.)-·made improvements on it. Gaylord was an industrialist, legislato=,' . and t;:ust:ee of the St:at:e iicspital.
The t-wo story cottage is the most fully conceived Swiss Cottage in North&-npton. Each detail-airy bracket.!;_, carved balconies·, closely soaced board a..""ld batcen siding-contributes to the pictu:::-esque c;:qmpqs;t, tion, _c;n.d el:l cou :r:~ge s an.4 enh<:kry..sg§ . tbe g lqy J~ght; t:[1e facades. As has been mentioned, Gaylord made ir.;pro·ve:Tients on ~he cot:tage soon after its purchase; it is therefore difficult to
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?ratt is nowhere credited w~th the imorovements although he is credited with 11Hr. Gaylord' su in the Daily !:i.a::np shire Gazette, Dece::Jbe::-26, 1865.
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.)
Atlas of Northampton, 1873, 1884. Resoistry· of Deeds, H~~shire Councv, 197.309 (Gavlord from
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Green), 12 .208, 129 .. 104, 129 .. 105, 15L255, 152.526, 15.-.414 .. Daily Hampshire Gazette, November 30, 1860, December 26, 1865.
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RELATION OF SURROUNDING TO STRUCTURE --1. Out~uildings ____________________________________ ~---------------------------------
• La!1dsc~pe Features: Agriculture Open Wooded Garden: Formal/!nfo:rmnl -~ -··- ............ --Predominant features 1 .~.,..f;P t'Y'f!e:'i - y; r--.w
Landscape archltect------------------------~------------------------------------
3. Neighboring Structures ·- Scyle: Colonial Federal Greek Revival Gothic Revival Italian Villa Lombard Rom.
Venetian-Gothic Mansard Richardson!an Modern ---Use: fu!side!_ltial Commercial Religious Conditions: Excellent Good Fair Deteriorated
------------~~--------------------------------------~--GIVE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE OF SITE (Refer and elaborate on
theme circled on front of form)
l'[i!.liDm ;.r. Gaylord Homestead - Ga:vlord was an iron manufacturer. He was born in 1821, ·::as a legislator, tl1ustee of the S·i;a·~e Hospi·~al. The l1ouse r:as later the home of Frank GaYlord and Jo!m Spencer Basset·~. The; architectural style derives from seve11 al Victorian do::::c~tic sources. The gardens ·::ere laid out to benefit from the view of the Mount Holyoke range of m:;:wntains.
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND/OR REFERENCE
rorbes Library Art Department, P'.noto.Collection 81.Jh N Rn G2)6 (photo- 1927) an~ in a photo of Pomeroy Terrace
l:ortha.TD.Pton Book- p~ 151
see He.nnshire Ge.zette Dedcmber 22, 1885, "Widening Pomeroy Terrace"
RESTRICTIONS _____________________________________________________ _
\ lri:;inal Owner: William M. Gaylord ~··_"~-:_- -:--_~::.' ·- :·
.:Jeed Information: Book Number ____ Page __ _
Form n. 10M·6·71..049688
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Lewis Warner rlouse
nt use Mass. Hen tal Health
nt owner Cornm. Hass.
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1885~1895
Registry of Deeds, 1895 Atl rrce~~--~~~~~~~~~---
bttrer fe'rHur~s shl.ngtec.f exterior with ·o r, . .
'qays· ;and 3 story cOi-ner tower;
sunburst motif' in pediment of gable
Moved no Date ---------------- ---------5. Lot size:
One acre or less x Over one acre --Approximate frontage 133 feet ------------------Approximate distance of building. from street
10 feet
C. Jl.Lbie, C• Keith Wilbur
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Residence Original use ------------------------~~~~-----------------------------
Subsequent uses (if any) and dates r,;orthampton.Schoo 1 for Girls 1961-74;
8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Comm. Hasse 1974-
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
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Conservation Education
_x__ Exploration/
--- settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/
· -rnve hti on Social/
humapitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation <:>fthem~s checked above)
This Ri chardsonian Shingle style residence is in original condition. The exterior wall surface is covered with large dark shingles; the shingle skin secures the cilrving forms of the south and east bays and the massive north tower to the body of the structure. Wooden stringcourses are also used to maintain fluid movement of the eye across the surfaces .of the facade.. CarVings appear OI'l. the north facade; leaded design )\ 'vindows appear above large windows in the north, east, and soui facades. ·
The house was probably built between 1884 and 1895.. Lewis Warner purchased the lot of land in 1874, at which time a smaller house was on the property. Given the retarditaire nature of Northampton architecture, the hous.e could ha.x:dLyhave been built before 1890. It is unquestionably indicated on the 1895
·Easthampton-Northampton Atlas@
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.)
Registry of Deeds, Hampshire County 1368.383, 381; 1366, 223; 1002e86; 828.287; 592.367; 532.45i &3; 514ol01; 5llo445; 312.91e Easthampton-Northampton Atlas, 1B95o
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
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~-Jrn. Lawrence House
use Mental Health Association
owner Frederick Ostrowski
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tali an Villa
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Outbuildings (describe) -~----------
Other features Tower with paired round ~·:..'- ;. ··: .
headed windows; bracketed overhang
on roofs; bfacketed door hood numerous additions in rear
Altered Date -------Moved no Date --------------- ----------
5. Lot size:
One acre or less X Over one acre
Approximate frontage 150 feet -----------------Approximate distance of building from street
20 feet
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Subsequent uses (if any) and dates Hamoshire Cbunty:>"Hental Health~I974 ·•
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Comf!lunity development
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X
Conservation Education Exploration/ . _§~t;!I~me~t ·
Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/ .. Jnyention Social/
humanitarian Tr ansporta ti on
9. Historical significance {include explanation of themes checke(i abo-..;e) This Italianate residence was built for William Lawrence
in li:S56.and is similar in design to others executed byWm. F. Pratt 1 ch.fring this p eric d. The to't•Ier with its paired round headed windot-fS may be a later addition: t~e -pr-: j ec't~-n~ ~t<:)-;:-y is clapboarded uncike the body of the house and tower in which the wall surface is smooth in imitation of masonry construction. Identical windows in the body of the house carry small cornices; the bay and roofs have deep bracketed overhangs •. Bracketed hoods cover the arched doorway .and round w-indow in the second sto.ry o £ the tower. Additions have been made to the south facade and / the rear of the structure.
10. Bibliography and/or references {such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.)
Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 8 !8561 April 7 1861:S. Hampshire Registry of Deeds: 16S.'JI:S, L50o389, 4oz, 316.492, 691.503, 784.584, 1762.74o
FORM B - BUILDING
Iv1ASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
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No rt hampton
1s 78 Pomeroy Terrace
Osmyn Baker House
Mass. Dept. Mental Health lt use
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Mass. Dept. Mental rleal; 1t owner -----------------------------ption:
1855 Daily Hamoshire G'zette
rce 10J27l8::>:>.·, 12/11 1855 ' -=+-~ rr.l \ • ,,
Modified Villa
and cent~al cupola; portico with
elaborate columns; numerous additions Altered additions Date ...c.-----
Moved. _ __;_....;n::.::o=------ Date""'". ___ _
5. Lot size:
One acre or less Over one acre x
Approximate frontage 209 feet. ------~~~~~--
Approximate distance of building from street
40 feet
' Os.-nyn Baker
8. Themes (che.ckasm~n.y
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts · Comrnerce Communication Community development X
9. Historical significance (include
. · TlJ~ ·l)~i]_y Hampshire on the Baker House:
11Qsmyn B.aker. i's erec 1855) .
•rThat {residence) of Osmyn Baker, on the opposite side of the street is built of brick, to be stuccoed, and commands, frpm the ·cupola at:: the tbp~'·a Vie\.J equalled by that from Round Hill •••• The house itself will be built with all the improvements of modern archiJtecture and:ml'l'"'be.'b-ne of the most substantial and tasteful resi.dences in town. 11 (December 11, 1855.)
•· Jfte 0s~wn Baker re'Si·dence is listed as a work of ~'i.lliarq F. Pratt in a G,azette article, 12/26/ 1865, about the local architect.. P-ratt is.als9 credit:ed.-Withx.the ·J. Stebbins Lathrop house •.
. f'J;le. QQl.l.§~~J.~. ffi9FE:! ... ~PR:t'9Pri~tely ... te.:rmgcj G\ .. yl,J.J.~ ... ~·,1:yJe thE!n .. a Greek· Revival (south·~rn)>house. ··:·,· ttGreek Revival" designates architecture imi ta;ti ve of the historical architecture of Greece. Neither the massing of the structure, the ornate cupola, nor the treatment of the portico and central windol-1, £o·llow the forms of the pure Greek Revival. The ornate· compo,si te columns and second story window cornice are possibly later addntions, as the Gazette note in June, 186~, that Osmyn Baker is improving his house on Phillips Place.(Pomeroy Terrace) •.
Half a dozen fine houses and cottages were built on Phillips Place Pqmeroy Terrace 1840-1870. Several fine examples of I talianate, Swi. ss
·-~-~·--~~~-€o-tt:a~ge,··~ vil-1-a-,~··ahd-braeketed··styles·--remai·n·~--The-~.g·ecticOn·,--wit:h~-it:s -superb view of the flood plain and mountain range, was the fashion?ble
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, res~dent area at
early maps, etc.). thi 5
tim Daily Hampshire Gazette, October 2, lts55, December 11, 1855, December 26, H:S65. · ·
·RELATION OF SURROUNDING TO STRUCTURE
Outbuildings ______________ --'-------------------
~ .. Landscape Features: Agriculture _QJ2~ Wooded Garden: Formal/Informal Predominant features shrub:=:- l<~.r~e trees- tiffi'l' of mountnins Landscape architect No:rthan,pton School for Girls
3.. Neighboring Structures Style: Colonial .E..ederal. Greek Revival Gothic Revival Italian Villa Lombard Rom.
Venetian Gothic Mansard Richardsonlan Modern I
Use: Residential Commercial Religious Conditions: Excellent ~ Fair Deteriorated _,
------------------------------~--~------------------~--GIVE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF IDSTORIC IMPORTANCE OF SITE (Refer and elaborate on
theme circled on front of form)
This is the third house to be built fro!'ll the same architectural plans which were brought from the South by J. Stebbins Lathrop. "It was built by Attorney Osm;nn Baker 1~10 duplicated the original cupola on the Lathrop home and the railing atop the front porch, which still survive- but added a vringed arch to the middle upper vdndmv.. Each of the three sta\illch friends who built these almost identical houses, J. Stebbins Lathrop, Samuel rfilliston ( in EasthamptonO, and Osrr.yn Baker, changed some architectural details of the exterior, evidentlY preferring the personal and distinctive touch to the precesely :iJnitative11 •
Omnyn Baker was an atto:rney and the leading spirit in the founding of the' Hampshire County Larr Library and the Public Library. He was the first president of' the Smith Charities and a Trustee of' tne CL"tt'lce School. Also a junior counsellor to Daniel Webster in the case of. Oliver Smith's will .. He was also a member of the United States Congress. /
.~ft')r her father's death, iUss Elizal;)eth Baker occupied the house before selling it to llr. French who in turn sold it to the Watson f~~ly. In 1924 it was purchased by '!iss Sarah rrnital\:er and Miss Dorothy Bement for the administl!ation build:i.n!! of the r-
1rortha:nntonEScCho.ol for Girls which they founded ..
BIBLIOGRA'PHY AND OR RE'FER :N• ~ H;!:npshire Gazette January 21!, i970
The ~!ortha.'npton Book (1954) Pp 99, 290, 291
RESTRICTIONS-----------------------------------------------------------
:Ori~n~Owner: ___ O~sm~·~m~-B~~~ce~r~----------------------Deed Information: Book Number ____ Page___ _ _________ Registry of Deeds
Form B. 10M·6·71~49688
FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION ,Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
JVJ
In Area no. Form no.
,.J 32A-221
Northampton
;s 83 Pomeroy Terrace
L. G~ Field House
1t use Residence
at owner Katherine Taylor
iption:
1868-1870 Registry of Deeds,
Lrce Gazette, 11/19/67
Bracketed house w/mansard
;ect . unknown
clapboards
. Outbuildings (describe) no he . ·• ... •, __ ;;..._ ____ _
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pedimented dOrmers; bracketed over-
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hang on roof; numerous additions
Altered mansard added? Date -----Moved no Date
----~~------- --------5. Lot size:
One acre or less x Over one acre --Approximate frontage __ ~1_0__:_0_.:::.f-=e-=e:..:.t __ _
Approximate distance of building from street
10 feet
6 R d db C.' Ibbie . ecor e y---~~ .......... _ ___,_ ___ _
R Organization Nort~amp ton Hi stotical
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7. Original ownc·r· (if h110Wn) Leonard G. Field
Subsequent uses (if any) and dates Residence ---------------------------------------------8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Arc hi tcctural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development X
Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Sci~_Qge/
invention Social/
humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanahon of themes checked above) 'fhis residence with mansard roo£ was built by L .. G .. Field
in the late 1860's .. He purchased the lot in 1867 from Caroline Lawrence, widow of William Lawrence whose 1859 Italianate house sti 11 stands to the north .. The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported: 11Lo G. Field has purchased a building lot, Phillips Place, from Mrs .. William Lawrence, and will build a 10,000 house on it .. u The substantia: dwelling and land were sold in 1~70 for $8,500 ..
Tne mansard roof \ol.i th dormer windows may have been added to th( ) body of the house.. Tne two story clapboarded base has deep bracketed overhang and large regular windows with modest cornices .. Windows in the mansard story are round headed and topped by bold pediments. ·
Phillips Place and its extension, Pomeroy Terrace, were developed as .. a residential area in the later nineteent;h century., A number of fine cottages, bracketed, and Italianate styles remaina
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Registry of Deeds, Hampshire County, 1169 .. 46, 1169.43 11
1106.393, Y94o342, ~73.138, 59b.246, 511.495, 33/.449, JQO.J61, 254o"' 17 o •
Daily Hampshire Gazette, November 19, 1867o \ /~
FORM B - BUILDING
1viASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMtvliSSION 294 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108
Recorded by E. Lonergan
Organization NHC --------~----------------
Date June 1980
r-----r----~'61j Area
-~orthampton
; 22 Phillips Place
ic Name
Form no. 32A-196
---------------------------riginal resid.encl!l
resent. res ide1tce
hip::Ja'i Private individual Private organization ------Public ------------------------
)riginal owner Sophia and Celia Osborne (?)
[PTION:
c. 1854
.Source Reg. of Deeds and Naps
Style ______________________________ _
Architect -----------------------------Exterior wall fabric flush boarding
Outbuildings ________________________ ___
Major alterations (with dates) -----
~1oved Date ------------------ ---------Approx. acreage ____ o_n_e __ a_c_r __ e __ o_r __ l_e_s_s __ ___
Setting ------------------------------
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFIC.AJ'-JCE (describe important a:rchite(;:tural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within ~ommunity)
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The house is two stories in height with slate hipped roof and a 2]z story gabled projections on the eastern side. There are gabled dormers on the roof, each with. t'ivO small round-headed sash windows •. The house is covered with flusr boarding and features wooden, simulated quoius at the corners and projecting cornices supported by moci<iilions with a frig~;:= Jl!lCl~!"l1.E:?:th. The two-bay facade has an entrance and-full-length French window on t;he first floor and is coverec by a one-story porch with flat roof, projecting cornice supported by modillions paneled pilsters on pedestals, fancy brackel:s and a turned balustrade. A similar porch covers the western side of the house. The windows on the house are rectangular, with two over tw9 sashes and are capped by projecting cornices
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role o\Y'ners played in local or state historv and how the buildi~g relates to tre:_developl!lept of the communi~y) ·
In 1847 a sub-division plan for Phillips Place was filed by Edward Clarke. This. was . the first street. to be opened off of Hawley St. ,. and was laid out.through a part of the Clarke homestead. In 1854 Sophia and Celia Osborn purchased lot no. 2 on Mr. Clarke's plan for $450. The map of that year sho\vs a house with "S and C Osborn" listed as the owners. . This property
, was owned by the Osborns until about 1870 when Ruth Dickinson purchased the __ )· \ .omestead .
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BIBLIOGR.A.PHY and/or REFERE:{CES
1831 To\vn Map. 1854 and 1860 County Maps. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 154-P. 470, 119-201.
/ _~orthampton Directory: 1895-96, 1885-86, 1875-76, "'-
. 1873, 1884 and 1895 Atlase
1873-74, 1868-69.
20f'.1- 2/80
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ription:
Ex-terior wall fabric \..ood shineles
Outbuildings (describe } __ n'-'o'-'n'-'e,;;;__ __ _
Other features 2 stories; ridge roof
with framed cross gable; shinglt:s
abo · clao bo9-rd s ___ ~·:=:low
Altered __ .......J_t.CL.__... _______ Date_·-·-----._
Moved Date ____ __:..;.::_____ ------
5. Lot size:
Less ~han one acre_~---- Over one acre
Approximate frontage 80 feet---·----
Approximate distance of building from strLd
00 feet
7. Gci~;·:\! ;_ . .._._.l";r (if known) ________ c. H. L'ickinson (?)
O:dginnl use __________ !) a rnL storage ..... -.
Subsequent uses (if any) and dates ___ __.;;;Sw.t:J.oour.£a~g~e;~:-. ----------------
8. Themes {check as mo.ny as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural x The' Arts -=-Commerce Communication Community development __
Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/
invention Social/
Humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical 'Significance (include explanation of themes checked above)
This·w~ll built shingled barn ,.:as·erected on Phillips :flace bet:v1een 188'4. and 1895, probably on land owned by C. H. C+ckJ..nson. Although the dwellings on the Place date from the period 1850-1860, the barn relates, in its style .and use of matep.a,ls, to shingle style houses on Pomeroy Terrace and elst~lere in the cityo
The structure features a projecting, gabled portion and perpe...'1.dicular mass t..rl.th ridge root and shingled upper storyo
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.)
Atlases of Northampton, 1884) 1895.
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FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House. RoHton
4. Map. !)raw sketch of buildinglocation in relation to.nearest cross str;eets and other buildings. Indicate north. ·
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Northampton
ss 28 Phillips Place
~ Meekin~ House
nt use Residence
1t owner Mary K. Flynn
.ption:
1847 ... 1851 Registry of Deeds
rce __ ~l~19~.~2u0+l~,~l~3~8~.~2~0~8~------
, Swiss Cottage
Architect Wm. F • Pratt
Exterior wall fabric 'WOOd ------------------attached shed
outbuildings (describe) ________ _
Other features· 2 stories; additions~.
deep overhang on roof; decorative
scallop between storj es. ______ _
Altered Date --~~------- ----------
Moved Date ---~~------- ---------
5. Lot size:
One acre or less _x __ Over one acre
Approximate frontage __ __....l_,..O""'O'--:--"'f..,..e._..e._..t~---
Approximate distance of building from street
10 feet
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8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
X
X
Conservation Education Exoloration/
·settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/
invention Social/
humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanat10n of themes checked above)
This Swiss ·Cottage was built between 1847 and 1851 on the land of the Clarke =amilyo A Josiah Hunt was aoparently the first occupant of the house, which was sold at auction in 1851 to Caleb \.JrighC:, for $2,000. In 1852 Wright sold the "tast.eful residence" to C.. K. Hawks and Hawks in turn sold the house to Thomas Meekins in 1857.. The cotta~e then remained in the Heekins family through the 20th century. ·
The cottage, smaller and more ec.onomi cal than-. the SlN"'i ss Coci:age built in the same period on Pomeroy Terrace, was designed b . . - - .... .... '1'' • h J: th ,. h . . ~ ...... y ...rn. ~: .. .!;"r.:........ ~ne aeep over a.Tlg 0.1. 1 e roo.r eJ.gn .. ens :...ne p lev· of li eht and shade on the, facade. lntri cate b:::ackets -support th~ roof ana pcrrches, and wide pearciing witl:i flat carved decoration defines the stories in the facadeo
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) _ . ... ,. . •
Keg~s~ry or Deeos, !38.208. Daily Hamnshire Gazette, 3/25/1851, 9/14/1852,
4/8/1856, 7 /14)1857'. 12/26/1865g
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FORM B - BUILDING In Area no. Form no.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 3 21' -1? 3 Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
m--~ Northampton
·ess 36 Phillips Place -------
.e C. Loomis House
5ent use Resioence
sent ownerF.oman Catholic Bishoo of
cription: Epr ingfielcl
~ 1851-1856
)ource Registrv of Deer'ls
~ Greek Revival
- !hitect in relation to nearest cross streets and --------------other buildings. Indi.::ate north. Exterior wall fabric ,: s c:>ha 1 t
Outbuildings (describe) - - - ____ _
Other features Pedimentecl __g__a~----
6 x 6 windows, 2 t211 interior
chimneys Gothic-styled gortico
A ltered _ _.,s""-_"""i d~e_,.c_____ Date .m..i.d.. -:: u t b c
Moved Date -------------- ------
5. Lot size:
One acre or less X Over one acre
Approximate frontage_:::...· 0~'--------
Approximate distance of building from street
l \ 15'
6. Recorded by E. Lonergan
Organization __ _.l""~I""-IC~------------
Da~ Janu~ry 1980
(over)
37M-7-77
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Original use ________________ ~R~~~s~id~e-r.~.c~e~--------~----------------~-------------------
Subsequent uses (if any) and dates------------------~--------------------------------
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Abori~nal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
Conservation Education Expleration/
settlement Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion S,cience/
invention Social/
· humanitarian Transportation·
9. Historical significance (include explanat10n of themes. checked above)
·r:tis 3it7'9le Greel-: Revi~Jal !~ouse !~Jas 0uilt foi: ·.::h-e~les P. :: .. ocrni.s ~uri~g the ea:ly 1850's. Its most interesting fe~ture is ~
l3cy ornate ~orti~o probably added soon ~fter the house's constru~tion. This is lot 5 of Edwar~ Clarke's sub~ivision e~ff of H.avlley St. 'T:1e 1854 County Nap lists n.S. Gear (sic) • next to this house. H.S. Gere at this ti~e was !sst. S~i~or of the Ee~cshire Herald and t~rtharnptcn Courier. He later be=~me s~itor and in 1858 .,.,hen the Courier t;Omoined '"'it::1 the Gazt?tte :-.e s-=rved a.s edito:: of the Hamoshi::e Gazette· 3!1·:3 ~iort::1amcton
2ourie~. This position was held into the ea~ly 20th century. I-ic•,vever, Gere doesn't sho•,o~. up in the F.egistry of Deeds as Ot..'ning tile ;:;r:oEJertz. Perh<:~ps Ger.:: lived here f~~ a short ci:t'e •.·ihile the ?roperty was cw~ed by C.P. Loomis of Hartford. In 1858 the ~roperty was sold to Be~jamin E. Cook, whose ho~estead was en ari~ge st. Cook's son, B.E. Cook, Jr., ?robably liv~d here ;fter that. 'Ihe ~ro9erty remained in t:he Cook family for t::e rest of t:.,_e l~·t:J. centtlr~{·
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.)
1354 * 1860 County Ma~s 1373, 1384 & 1895 ~tlases
Registry of Deerls: Book 181, Page 277, 1~8-~67, 1,8-~0. 1~3-6
and 120-483
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FORM B - BUILDING
l\1ASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
37M:-7-77
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321;-198
n Northampton
?ess ~5 Phillips Place
Le E. Slate House
3entuse Residence
sent ownenJ. Kenneth & Margaret Bixby
cription:
~ 1848-1854
:ource Registry of Deecs
e Greek EevLral
hitect ----------~------
Exterior wall fabric i' sbestos
Outbuildings (describe) ::'~:a st.a...J:y ;2 ;:'! rc
Other features 9 x 9 first floor facade
w:i.nclows, wjr'le r•ornirP. _ _fllll gal)1p
r~turn and tall chimney, acrticq_
Altered sidec Datemid -:>Oth C. -------Moved - - - Date - - -------------------
5. Lot size:
One acre or less Over one acre
Approximate frontage S'O' --------------------Approximate distance of building from street
20 1
6. Recorded by E. Lo ne . ...,r'-'"g..,.o"--'n......___ _____ _
Organization NBC --~~~--------------------
Date Jan.uary 11?80
(-7. Or~iMlowMr(likoo~)---~~r~~~s~t~·~·~s-~~1~=wt~e~--------------------.,
Original use ______________ ~R~e~s~1~·c,~,e~-~n~r~e~------------------~~------~-----------.....
Subsequent uses (if any) and dates _____________ ~--,--.:..--...,_,;.-_____ _,..
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
Conservation Education Exploration/
setUeroe.nJ Industry Militar'Y
-- PoLitical _:..___
'Rep~ation Relil'ton Science/
invention Social/
humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanat10nofthemes check~d abov~)
Cl.::rke far:~il~·· ~dward Clarke beaan sellina lets !t the - J -
same time an~ sold lot 17 to ~rastus Slate in 2ctober 1a;s.
( century. The street ~as the fir~t to be opened o~f of Hawley St.
and with the c~ening of Po~eroy Terrace oEf of 3ridge St. a new
resi~ential area was created, ~~1ich cuic~ly bRcame the ~ashionable
resieenti3l 3rea of town.
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc. )
1:354 ~ 1.850 t:;o;..:i~ t y :~!a ps 1873, 1'384 & 1:=3~· 3 :tla3e::
R~gistry ._,: v.- :e<::ds : Bcok 125 Pa ~ I I
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FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
4. Map. Drawsketch of buiiding location in relation to nearestcross streets and other 'buildings. Indicate north.
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lss 29 Phillips , lace
J. H. Turner House
mt use Resi denc:e
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mt owner Stanley M. Niedal et al.
:-iption:
c. 1865 Registry of Deeds
urce 289.405
Bracketed
Architect unknown -----~-----------
Exterior wall fabric clap boards
Outbuildings (describe) none --~~--------
Other features large brackets support
roof overhang; cornices over windows
small balcony in third floor facade
Altered no Date ---==--------- ---------
Moved no Date -----5. Lot size:
One acre or less x Over one acre
Approximate frontage 90 feet ---------------Approximate distance of building from street
10 feet
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8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts . Commerce Communication Community development
Conservation Education Exploration/
stettlement InO.ustry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/
invention Social/
humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above)
Thisc:bracket:ed style house with picturesque window balcony was built in Phillips Place about 1865. In 1365 A. J. Lincoln sold to Turner, for $2,000, lot #16 in Phillips Place. The lot had not been built an as the result of a nro~~sion in a previou$ deed, 149.461. ·
While this bracketed house is not in itself out:. standing, its modest styling complements the other more ambitious residences in the Phillips Place-?omeroy Terrace area.
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor 1s records, early maps, etc.) Registry of Deeds, Hampshire County, 289.405, 226 .. 23,
149 .. 461. . . Beer's 1873 Atlas~
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FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
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ss 37 Phillips Place
K. A. Burnell/M.E. White House
:nt use Re si dE:mce
mt owner Robert F •. Olander
~iption:
1853 Dail}T.Hampshire ·Gazette
urce 4/26/1853
Exterior wall fabric
()utbuilclings (describe)_' _.s ..... h"-'eiii.ldoL-.----
other features oma.te chjmneys; f] at
roof wfth generous bracketed over-
hang; later porch and bays
Altered. _ _.J.Jn.ua _____ Date ____ _
Moved. __ .unuO----- Date ____ _
5. Lot size:
One acre or less X Over one acre
Approximate frontage 140 feet
Approximate distance of building from street
15 .. feet
6. Recorded by~.....:C~ • ..____Du~b!::.l.!!L. ,l::e ______ _
Organization Northampton Hi. sto rl cal i,;ommission
Date June 2, 1975
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8. Themes {check as many as applicable)
Aborjgioal Agricultural Architectural The Arts . Commerce Communication Community development X
Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Militarv Political
Recreation Religion Science/
invention Social/
humanitarian Transpor-tation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) This modest bracketed house was built in 1852-53 on
land owned by Kingsley A. Burnell. Burnell sold the house, partially completed, to Reverend 1"'10rri s E. \·rni te. The whites also purchased the lot to the west (#16) from Erastus Slate, with the understanding that no dwelling would be built on the property for 15 years.. In 1865, ?enelope R. White sold the 2 lots to A .. J. Lincoln and Lincoln disposed of the westerly lot of land (with no dwelling) in that year.. Lincoln's house is attributed to Pratt in t:he Daily ) Harepshire Gazette, December 26, 1865. ..
The residence is of value as it: harmonizes with the other nineteenth century mvellings in the area and represents one of Wm. F .. Pratt• s more modest works ..
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as loca1 histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps. etc.) '!:) ......; f - .4 H hi r 226 23
.L'I.ec,.~.stry o uee .... s, • amps re "''unty: .. ,
Beer's 1873 Atlas. Daily H~~shire Gazette, 4/26/1853, 12/261 1865~
FORM B - BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
4. Map. Draw sketch'of building loCatiOn · in relation to· nearest cross streets and other buildings; Indicate north.
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Northa1llp ton
;s 51 Phillips Place
C, H. Kinney House (first)
1t use re si den ce
1t owner Rudolph Turcotte, M.D.
ption:
1848 Registry of Deeds
rce . 119.201 ~~~~~~--~-----------
late federal
Architect unknowri
Exterior wall fabric wooden clapboards
Outbuildings (describe) attached barn
'Other features) ··well in crawl space;
later porch with columns; 2 interior
(elaborate~ ch~mnevs
Altered additions Date ~~---
Moved no Date -----5. Lot size:
One acre or less X Over one acre ·
Approximate frontage 150 feet
R £: Approximate distance of building from street
C£fVEo 10 feet
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8. Themes (cheek as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Archltectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development
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Conservation Education Explo:uati on/
settren1ent Industry Military Political
Recreation Religion Science/ · invent ion Social/
humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanat10n of themes checked above)
C. H. Kinney was one of the first to buy land in Phillips Place \vhen the street was opened in 1847.. The "Plan of Phillips Place" drawn by W. F. Pratt indicated Kinney's lot (no,. 13) on the southerly side of the street. Kinney:late~·~urcHased,the lot adjoining(no. 14) and sold a portion of no. 14 to M. E. White in 1855. · M fhe house which Kinney built was very conservative in style. Within the next several years other late federal style houses ) we1:e constructed in Phillips Place; two more adventurous spirits had cottages designed by w .. F .. Pratt and built in Phillips Place .. The Kinney house is three bays wide and two deep. Cornices appear over the first story windows. The steep hipped roof has ~- deep overhang; two rather ornate chimneys balance the facade.. A large porch, a much later addi·tion, obscures the entranceway.
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.)
Registry of Deeds, Hampshire County, 119.201, 125.372a
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FORM B BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
4. Map'.·. Draw sketch ofljuildfng locati9n ..• in relation to nearest Cr()SS_ stree~s and other buildi(lgs. Indicate, north.
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Outbuildings (describe) small barn now -in residential use
other features. 2 stories;· gable end
faces street; pilasters at corne~s;
heavy cornice; enclosed D ediment
Altered additions Date --------Moved no Date -------
5. Lot size:
Less than one acre x Over one acre ---Approximate frontage 90 feet
Approximate distance of building from street
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8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development _;.c_
Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Military Political,
Recreation Religion ~cience/
invention Social/
Humanitarian Transportation
9. Historical Significance (include explanation of themes checked above)
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Th~s_ Greek,.Revival style residence l;va~ built in ·Phillips Place snortly ar:ter the street was opened in 1847. It is the single Greek L\.evival style in,the neighborhood where bracketed and gothic cottage styles prey~iL The residence is t\.vo stories in height and displays the prominent pilasters and pediment: of the Greek Revival style.. A \vide cornice surrounds the rectangular str1.1cture below the line of the eaves and pilasters _appear at the. four coroerso The pediment is deli cat e. and dentillated. A, later porch, supported .bY Doric columns, surrounds the lnwer story; the off center entranceway is set off vlith sidelights ..
Phillips Place was created in 18e7 on land of the Clarke family and quickly became the fashionable residential area in the to\·m. The area was quickly 'Populated by industrialists and merchants and the various Vi ctonan resi deuces have been ~..,ell preserved over the years ..
10 . .Bibliography and/or references (such as local ru"stories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.)
Registry of Deeds, 119 ... 201..
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MASSACHlJSETTS HlSTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary. State House, Boston
4. Map. Draw sKetcn OI 0Ul.I.U1U15 1V~auvu in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. I
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lSS 59 Phillips Place
§a;tiage He\!-&e
:mt use Residence
ent owner Estelle Lula
ription:
1873-1884
ource ______ A_t_l_a_s_e __ s_o __ f_N_o_._r_t_h_a_mp~t_o_n
Italianate
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Exterior wall fabric ~o d ----~~~-----------
Outbuildings (describe) none ------~~=-------
Other features ~----------------------
Altered no Date ----~---------- -----------
Moved no Date ---------------- ----------5. Lot size:
Less than one acre x Over one acre ---Approximate frontage 130 ft. (Porn. l'er.
Approximate distance of building from street
50 feet
6. Recorded by __ __;:C:.::.•--::Du~b-=i_e _____ _
Organization Northampton Historical Comm~SSl.On
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Original use __ ·;_ ____ _ C:l.hJ.:i age hr1..use (1):....-_____ ~--------
8. Themes {check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural x The· Arts Commerce Communication Community development __ _
Conservation· Education ---Exploration/
settlement Industry Tvlilitary Political
Recreation Religion Science/
invention Social/
Hu manitn.rian Transportation
9. Historical Significance (include explanation of themes checked above)
This small house off Pomeroy Terrace first served as an o.utbuildii1g for 59 Phillips .Place, a Greek R.ev'i.val residence. The structure mimics the Italianate splendor of the Osrnyn Baker House on Po~eroy Terrace~ Each is a cubic mass with projecting flat roof ~1d belvedere with· round headed -.:·zi.ndo-.:·7S.. A porch has been added to the structureo
assessor's records, 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local early maps, etc.)
Atlas of r~orthampton, 187~, 1384
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Leo H. Porter House
nt use residence
mt owner Hargaret 0. Andrus
ription:
1893-1895 Registry of De~ds 458.178
)Urce 1895 Northamo ton Atlas
~ Colonial Revival
llitect - unknown
Exterior wall fabric thin clapboards
Outbuildings (de scribe)~ .. ·.'-'gc:a=-r=-a=-gc.e=-----
Other features Ridge Roof, massive
gambrel roofed doriner; Palladian
mofifs W & E facades; portico with carving in pediment Altered no Date -----Moved no Date
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5. Lot size:
One acre or less x Over one acre
Approximate frontage 61 feet -------=---------Approximate distance of building from street
10 feet
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8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Ar~s Commerce Communication Community development
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Conservation Education Exploration/
settlement Industry Mili~ry Political
R~creation Religion
·Science/ invention
Social/ humanitarian
Transportation
9, Historical significance (include explanat10n of themes'checked above)
Butler Place was open~d in 1~92 at which time Sar~h.'M. Butler divided the Butler land .extending from Hawley Street: to Pomeroy Terrace into a dozen or so parcels. Leo Porter purchased a small lot, fl5, in 1893 with the agreement that "the grantee agrees not: to erect any building nearer than 12 1 from the inside line of the sidewalk." (458.178) A house \vhose proportions closely approximate those of the Colonial Revival st:ructu.re is indicated on the 1895 Atlas.
The interlocking masses of the Porter house are Hell integrated. Each of the three stories is clearly artio~lated in the facade through the use ofroverhangs and stringcourses and confinement of decorative elements to the first and third floors.. The rnas·sive gambreled section and the west facade feature .·Palladian: rno~~;~, §llt:l:lougl1 t:he. 't;reatrnent o.f the Y-ii.ndow panes- refers to the diamond shaped lead paned windows of the colonial period rather than to the more fanlike Palladian windowo
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10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc. )
Registry of Deeds, Hampshire County: 1378.179, 1322 .. 428, 1154.456, 10,99 .. 173,1077 .. 397, 1056.383, 711 .. 492, 711.98.t 711.183, 516.203, 466.171~458.178; Plan of land 448.259, Plan J4.68, 34.32.
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Inventory cif the Buildinns and
Architectural Plans cif William Fenno Pratt
1. Blodgett Mansion (Ithiel Town, architect; Thomas Pratt, builder)
1830; Prospect Street, Northampton.
Biographical Review: 16-year-old William was a carpenter on
this project. Some material on this house is also in the Qyarter
Centennial Edition Hampshire County Journal, 1887
2. Miss Dwight's Female Seminary 1835; Gothic Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: November 25, 1835; December 26, 1865
3. First Congregational Church 1836; Easthampton.
Hampshire Gazette: December 26, 1865; Biographical Review
Photos preserved at Easthampton Congregational Church.
A history of the Easthampton Congregational Church, A Burning and
Shining Light ( 1985; Edward F. Dibble, editor) credits Thomas as
architect and William as builder.
4. Samuel Whitmarsh House 1839; 30 Lyman Road, Northampton.
Registry if Deeds: 84.393, agreement with Thomas Pratt.
Renovated by W. F. Pratt in 1866 and, by another architect, again in
1905 for the Lyman family. Currently the Smith College Infant and
Toddler Program. See #49 for the Pratt remodeling of 1866.
5. William F. Pratt Cottage 1845-50; 9 Cherry Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette:january 9, 1855
6. Lathrop-Butler House 1848; 57 Bridge Street, Northampton.
Richard Cote, "Thomas Pratt and Greek Revival Architecture in
Northampton, Massachusetts." Cote attributes the house to
Thomas Pratt. Its similarities to the Baker (# 15) and Bodman
(#57) houses, Hunt feels, suggest W. F. P.'s primary contribution.
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7. City Hall I 849; 210 Main Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: June 26, 1849, etc.
Contractor: Descreet, Boynton, & Company, Springfield
8. Justus Boies House I 850; 42 Gothic Street, Northampton.
Historical Commission inventory: 31 B-261
9. Kirkland Block I 850; Main Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: July 23, 1850; December 26, 1865
10. Josiah Hunt House c. 1850; 28 Phillips Place, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette:March25, 185l;December26, 1865
11. William Gaylord House 1850-55; 58 Pomeroy Terrace, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: November 30, 1860;
December 13, 1860; December 25, 1865
12. Dr. Edward Denniston House improvements 1853; "Outlook Place," Prospect Heights, Northampton.
Historical Commission inventory, 24A-175
13. Mrs. M. E. White House 1853; 37 Phillips Place, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette:
February 2 8, 1965; December 26, 1865
Paradise Buil t
W. F. Pratt Inventory
14. S.C. Parson's Drugstore 1854; Main Street, Northampton. Hampshire Gazette: August 29, 1854; December 26, 1865
15. Osmyn Baker House
1855; 78 PomeroyTerrace, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: October 2, 1855;
December II, 1855; December 26, 1865
16. William Lawrence House 1856; 71 PomeroyTerrace, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: April 8, 1856; December 26, 1865
17. William Austin Dickinson House 1856; 214 Main Street, Amherst.
Paul Norton, Amherst: A Guide to its Architecture
18. Summit House, remodeled 1856; Top of Mt. Holyoke, Hadley.
Book if specifications, Historic Northampton
19. Whitney House 1858; 576 Main Street, Amherst.
Norton, p. 41
20. Mrs. Edward Clarke Cottage 1859; 28 Round Hill Road, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette:April 26, 1859;
August 16, 1850; December 26, 1865
21. Dr. Alvah Littlefield House
1859; 337-339 Bridge Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: March 29, 1859
22. Henry Lathrop House
1859; 81 Bridge Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: March 29, 1959; December 26, 1865
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23. Seth Hunt House 1859; 115 Bridge Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: March 29, 1859; December 26, 1865
24. Amherst High School 1860; Amherst.
Hampshire Gazette: june 5, 1860
25. Lincoln House
1860; 405 South Pleasant Street, Amherst.
26. Hills's Palm Leaf Hat Factory 1860s; College and Railroad streets, Amherst.
Hampshire Gazette: April 24, 1875
Norton,p.140
27. Florence Congregational Church 1861; corner of Park and Pine Streets, Florence.
Hampshire Gazette: january 8, 1861 ;April 2, 1867
Moses Breck was the builder.
28. Edwin Herrick House
1861; 38 South Main Street, Haydenville.
Hampshire Gazette:january 8, 1861
29. J. H. Lyman House 1861; 112 Elm Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: june 4, 1861; December 26, 1865
Now Hopkins House, Smith College.
Paradise Built
W F Pratt Inventory
30. C. M. Kinney House 1861; 397 Prospect Street, Northampton.
31.A. L.Williston House 1861; Florence.
Hampshire Gazette: August 6, 1861
Hampshire Gazette:january 8, 1861
Williston was the superintendent of the Greenville Manufacturing
Company in Florence. A portion of the house remains at 82 Pine
Street, pictured here below the rustoric photograph.
32. D. R. Clark House 1861; 219 Elm Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: August 6, 1861
33. A. C. Marshall House 1861; 325 Montague Road; North Amherst.
Hampshire Gazette: August 6, 1861
34. Leonard Mariner Hills House 1862; 35 Triangle Street, Amherst.
Norton, p. 43
The Hills were the owners of the Palm Leaf Hat Factory #26.
35. Henry Hills House 1862-63; 390 Main Street, Amherst.
36. Florence Sewing Machine Works Addition 1863; Main Street, Florence.
Hampshire Gazette: April 14, 1863; December 26, 1865
Norton, p. 39
The 1865 article refers to a "Florence Sewing Macrune Factory."
The "West" building was finished by tllls time. The 1863 reference
mentions only a two-story addition of 36 feet by 150 feet, wruch
would have preceded construction of the West .
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37. Northampton High School 1863-64; Main Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: May 26, 1863
38. George T. Davis House interior remodeling 1864; Greenfield.
Hampshire Gazette: September 6, 1864
39. Greenfield Banking Company remodeling 1864; Greenfield.
Hampshire Gazette: September 6, 1864
40. First National Bank Building 1865; 373 Main Street, Amherst.
Norton, p. 38. Since publication of Norton's
book, the building's second story and
bracketed cornice have been removed.
41. Stockwell & Spaulding Block (Union Block) 1865; east corner of Main and Pleasant streets, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: March 1, 1864;July 25, 1865; October 24, 1865
42. Connecticut River Railroad Depot 1865; Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: June 17, 1865
43. Smith Charities Building 1865; 51 Main Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: July 18, 1865
44. Lee & Hussey Block 1865; 44-48 Main Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: July 25, 1865; October 24, 1865
Paradise Built
W F. Pratt Inventory
C. Watson House, Northampton
Merritt Clarke's Store
New Haven &_Northampton
Passenger House, Northampton
45. Buildings in the December 26, 1865 45. article (not listed previously) 45. (D) Demolished; (E) Extant
A. Northampton Residences 1 a. Charles Delano (D) 1. A. J. Lincoln [M. E. White house,# 13] (E) 2. F. A. Stockwell's (D) 3. Oscar Edwards (D) 3a. W B. Hale (E) 4. Clark & Spaulding 5 . William H. Stoddard 6.W F. Arnold 7. C. Watson (D) 8. L. B. Williams (D)
B. Northampton Non-Residences 1. Hampshire County Bank (D) 2. New Haven & Northampton Passenger House (D) 3. First Congregational Church Chapel (D) 4. Stoddard & Lincoln's Store (D) 5. Merritt Clarke's Store (D) 6. Winthrop Hillyer's-Interior (D) 7. O.A. Skilton's Store 8. Clarke Block (D) 9. Warner Block 10. S.M. Smith & Company Block 1 Oa. Florence Sewing Machine Factory 11.Arms, Bardwell, & Company (D)
C. Amherst Residences 1. S. B. Fuller 2. Professor Edward Hitchcock 3. Professor William Montague 4. Professor A. C. Seelye 5. Mrs. Underhill 6. E. 0. Fairchilds
D. Amherst Non-Residences 1. Kellogg's Block 2. First Congregational Chapel 3. College Chapel-improvements
E. Residences outside Northampton and Amherst 1. J. L. Brown, South Adams 2. W B. Gilbert, Grand Rapids, Michigan 3. Bailey Sanford, Taunton 4. A. J. Johnson, Sunderland 5. Mrs. Swift, Easthampton 6. John A. Billings, Hatfield 7.WA. Hawks, Williamsburg (E) 8. 0. G. Spelman, Williamsburg (E) 9. Arthur Hoyt, Deerfield 10. Dr. Deane, Greenfield
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W. B. Hale, The Gables
Round Hill Road, Northampton
W. A. Hawks
North Main Street, Williamsburg
0. G. Spelman North Main Street, Williamsburg
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F. Non-Residences outside Northampton and Amherst 1. High School House, Haydenville 2. High School House, Williamsburg 3. High School House, Hadley 4. High School House, Sunderland 5. First National Bank, Greenfield 6. R. Howland's Store, Greenfield 7. Chapman Block, Greenfield 8. Connecticut River Railroad Passenger House, Chicopee 9. CRRR Passenger House, Holyoke 10. CRRR Passenger House, Hatfield 11. CRRR Passenger House, Greenfield 12. CRRR Passenger House, Bernardston 13. CRRR Passenger House, South Vernon 14. CRRR Machine Shop, Springfield 15. First Congregational Church, West Winstead, Conn.
16. D. Pulsifiers Packing House, Boston
46. J. H. Lyman, II 1866; 333 Elm Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: October 31, 1 865; Auaust 11 , 1868
47. (Old) Northampton National Bank 1866; 135 Main Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: March 6, 1 866; October 30, 1866
48. Watson L. Smith House 1866; 58 Phillips Place, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
49. Edward H. R. Lyman House remodeling Lyman Road, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: June 5, 1 866; October 16, 1866
The JuneS article mentions E. H . R. Lyman's purchase
of the Singmaster residence on Fort Hill,
originally the Whitmarsh house,#4.
Paradise Built
VV. F. Prattlnvento~
50. St.John's Episcopal Church 1866; Bridge Street, Northampton.
The Northampton Book, p. 155
Pictured, a drawing dated 1854 apparently
signed by Pratt.
51. Canal Freight Depot 1866; Northampton. Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
52. First Parish Parsonage 1866; 74 Bridge Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
53. Catholic Society Parsonage 1866; 41 King Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
54. James C. Ward Cottage 1866; Paradise Road, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
56. S. C. Parsons House
55. Captain Henry A. Brown House 1866; 63 Gothic Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
1866; Henshaw Avenue, Northampton. Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866; February 2, 1864
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57. Luther Bodman House 1866; corner of Elm Street and Round Hill Road, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
58. Henry Childs House 1866; corner of Elm and Prospect Streets, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
59. William H. Todd House 1866; Prospect Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
60. Sunderland High School 1866; Sunderland. Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
62. C. S. Eddy House 1866; Greenfield.
61.Thomas S. Hayden House 1866; One High Street, Haydenville.
Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
63. Professor J. H. Seelye House 1866; Amherst.
Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
64.]. R. Cushman House 1866; North Amherst.
Hampshire Gazette: October 30, 1866
65. Henry Watson Barn after 1866; Northampton. Plan in the colleciton if Historic Northampton
66. W. R. Clapp House remodeling 1867; South Street, Northampton.
Hampshire Gazette: February 19, 1867
Paradise Built
THE BELDING MILLS Hawley Street near
corner of Hancock Street
At the same time that the Mill River destroyed some of the water-powered wooden silk factories in 1874, the Belding brothers were building a brick factory, run on coalpowered steam. This factory (no longer standing)
was built along the railroad tracks for the coal supplies and the shipping of goods. Natives of this area, the brothers had built their first silk thread factories in southern Connecticut and now expanded their business to Northampton. This company merged in the late '20s with two other local companies. An image of this mill was incorporated into the Northampton city seal, which also includes four silk moths around the edge. Along Hancock Street, you can see a row of houses built for the workers here.
THE STEBBINS HOUSE 81 Bridge Street
Dr. Daniel Stebbins was one of the first in Northampton to import silkworm eggs directly from China in 184 2. He and his daughters fed the worms with the leaves of the mulberry trees he planted on 12 acres behind this house. Dr. Stebbins brought a silk weaver from Lyon, the French silk capital, to Northampton to weave the family silk. Parts of dresses made from this silk for his daughters are in the clothing collection at Historic Northampton.
House said way station Tradition holds that home once part of underground railroad By GREG KERSTETTER Staff Writer
NORTHAMPTON -Melinda Kennedy had a problem when her children were growing up in her Pomeroy Terr11ce house: too many small places into which. small people could fall.
Kennedy did what any cautious mother would. She had those tunnels and pits down in the basement filled in with concrete.
Local oral tradition has it that those tunnels and odd chimney spaces we,_e used nearly 150 years ago as a hideaway for runaway slaves.
Kennedy believes the house was a waystation on the Underground Railro<!d, a network of places where slaves could hide as they made their way north to Canada.
Historic Northampton recognizes seven houses in Northampton · and Florence, although not Kennedy's, as stations on the Underground Railroad. To get on the official list, more than folklore is needed; There must be written evidence.
. Still, there are features of the house that suggest it was once used to conceal .people. In addition, the house next door, at 48 Pomeroy, where the College Church has its . offices, is also considered· by folklore to have been another waystation in the system.
Kennedy's parents, Clarence and Ruth Kennedy, told her that the tunnel cut into ,the bluff on which her house sits led to her basement. There is a passage, now blocked, that ends in the basement. There is also a faux chimney, never connected to a fireplace, that has a hollow space in it large enough to fit a human for ·a short time. Another passage, Kennedy said, used to lead next door.
Kennedy said that in the summer, when the sun bakes her lawn, a patch of brown grass appears over where she suspects the tunnel connects the two houses. ·
The College Church house was once owned by Pierre Drewsen, a one-term !llayor elected in 1951. The building ·origmally was owned by a Miss Cochran, according to records at · Historic Northampton, and is referred to as the Miss Cochran Cottage. It was built in 1850, the. same year that the FUgitive Slave Law was enacted, forcing people across the country to help slave owners recover those who had ·escaped.
The Cochran Cottage is peaked with a widow's walk, built with window panes looking out in all four directions. Kennedy said those panes used to be different .colors - red, yellow and blue.
According to Kennedy, runaway slaves would look up at widow's walk and determine by the .color ofthe lit panes whether it was safe to proceed.
Documents at· Historic Northampton also say that local tradition held that the Miss Cochran House was used ·to harbor runaway slaves. "Unfortunately;
Melinda Kennedy inspects a ~o!low space ·in a faux chimney in her 44 Pomeroy Terrace house. The ~pace could have bee.n ~sed as a h1dmg place for runaway slaves. KennedY's parents 'tqld her the house was . used as a .waystat1on on the Underground Railroad. ·
there is no documentation for this story," according to the report.
A. third house in the neighborhood may als() have· served as a station along the Underground Railroad. According to neighborhood folldore; June Turcotte's house. at 51 Phillips Place was connected by underground tunnel to Kennedy's house.
Turcotte said she has never seen evidence of any tunnels, though she has heard that the house served as a hideaway.
A list compiled by researchers at Historic Northampton includes other houses considered by local folklore to have been part of the Underground Rallro.ad system. Seth Hunt ownad two houses ~ one at 116 Conz St. anu the other at 119 Bridge St., near the current U.S. Post Office - -which were· thought to harbor runaway slaves.
From the · hideaways along Pomeroy Terrace, slaves usually made their way
·to Florence, according to records in Historic Northampton.
In . Florence, Samuel Hill and A.P. Critchlow had made a reputation as solid abolitionists, who harbored men and women on the run to Canada.
. KEVIN GUTI'ING This house at 48 Pomeroy Terrace now serve~ as the offices of the College Church, though nearly 150 years ago ·it likely was a ·station on the Underground .Railroad. Ruf!away slaves, _the story goes, used to be able to determme how safe 1t was to move· about by watching lights from the widow's walk on top of the house.
LOCal addresses of UnderaroU11d Railroad .·. Street in Florenc~. . ?· . · · . 0"' · · · , • J.P. Williston House at the comer·
. NORTHAMPTON ...,. M.ore than 20 , five others that. were rumored to be of Pine and Maple streets. · years ago, all local . historical ".: waystatlons but for which tliere. was ; • David Ruggles Watercure, a ' commissions· in the state were asked · insufficient proof to be Jis.ted former spa on Spring Street, now, · to compile lists of sites used as ,, officially.- , . · · destroyed. ,
waystatlons on the, Underground - The official Ust: • The Northampton Association of .. · Railroad. · · J' ... . ,, · ·.. .. • Ross Farm on Meadow Street .in Education & Industry bulJdin(!, · :· · The former chairman of the · · Florence: ·• · · · · · destroyed earlier. this centucy, at the ,
Northampton Historical Commission, • Samuel . Bottum House ori Main corner of Nonoluck ·and ·south·:Main ' C. Keith Wilbur, put together · a list : Sti·eet In Florence. · . ' - streets. ' .. for Northampton, relying chiefly on . • The A.P. Critchlow _ • George 'Benson house, formerly the "History of Florence," written by Daguerreotype Factory on Pine on·Nonotuck Street, now destroyed.
. Charlea Sheffield in 1895. · ·Street, now incorporated Into ·the · · • . William Adam house,-fonnerly on · Nine sites made .It on the list former Pro Brush factory building. · Nonotuck Street, now destroyed.
W!lbur;_subinltted _to the·state, with .Samuel Hill House on Maple . - .GRE;G ~RSTETTER ·~·::
HISTORIC REMINISCENCES.
FLORENCE.
BY MRS. HELEN T. CLARK, NORTHUMBERLAND, PENN.
THE hunted slave whose dusky, trembling form Sank at your sheltering doors for one brief night, Ne'er touched ·a fairer foothold in his flight
To lands where Freedom dwelt with northern storm.
Helpers of man ! The child of poverty May rise, despair may hope, the dull may learn, The wavering torch of genius brighter burn,
Where thought magnetic flows in impulse free.
Seekers for truth ! who deem that every soul Should have its perfect meed of growth and lightNot statelier than your Temple reared for Right
Rose classic fane where waves 1Egean roll!
Dear, honored dead,* who wrought for brotherhood, In golden deeds, in words of deathless power, Not vainly did ye live your "crowded hour,"
And pour your souls out for the wide world's good !
Bright homes of thrift ! strong hearts and kindling eyes Wherein the spirit of the Future thrills-Encircled by your blue, eternal hills,
Draw strength and life from blue, eternal skies!
THE "UNDERGROUND RAILWAY."
:BY JOSEPH MARSH.
A COMPLETE history of the underground railway in Florence will never be known. Those who ran it upon the principles of the brotherhood of man did so at their periL It is not strange that some, moving within and being a part of the influence and inspiration of the communistic spirit of Florence, should abhor slavery. Most of them had
* S. L. Hill, A. T. Lilly, Charles C. Burleigh, Mary W. Bond and others.
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i:hrown off the bondage of superstition, and had peculiar sympathy with those who were trying to free themselves.
One of the stations on the underground railroad was kept by Samuel L. Hill. Be sure if anything of this kind was going on he would have a band in it. The account of it is best related by his son in his own words.
Dear Mr. Marsh,-FLORENCE, MASS., January 31, 1893,-
Although I saw a good many passengers who were on the underground railway, bound north, I remember few of the incidents that occurred. A good many passengers stopped "five minutes for refreshments" at my father's, and conductors were often changed here. On a few trips I was either conductor or assistant conductor. Quite a number of the through passengers temporarily took up their abode in Florence, the balmy anti-slavery climate here proving very attractive to them. After the forced return of Anthony Burns from Boston to the Southern tyrants, the sojourners here became alarmed and pushed on to their original destination, Canada. Father Henson, one of the originals that furnished particulars for Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom," came by this line on one of his trips to Canada. I think that it was not his first trip, but that he had been south again after some of his friends.
William Wilson was landed here, remained a few months, worked and earned some money, returned south secretly, was gone quite a while, but finally reached here again with a grown-up son, that he had been able to guide from slavery to freedom. The two men hired a small tenement, were industrious, and worked for an object. After they had saved money enough they went south to rescue 1:heir.daughter andsister. After a long absence the younger man returned, the -older one having been captured and returned to slavery. The younger was confident that his father would again escape and decided to wait for him here. Sure -enough, in a little while the old gentleman and daughter came, and after a short .stay to rest and get a little money the whole party moved north to the queen's -dominions.
Many of the refugees, who were intelligent enough, became the talking centers for our neighbors and sympathizers to gather around. I heard many a thrilling story of brutality, suffering, and exciting adventures in the "leap for freedom." Father's most frequent trip as conductor ran to the Kingman's in Cummington, but occasionally our living freight was delivered at a Mr. Crafts' house in Whately,
Sincerely yours, ARTHUR G. HILL.
David Ruggles, a colored man who had edited a paper in New York city called The Mz'rror, kept another station. On account of his activity there in conducting the underground railroad, he was roughly han· dled, but was protected by the Tappans. Broken down in health, and suffering a partial loss of eyesight, he came to Florence, and, by a skillful home treatment upon hydropathic principles, he regained his health in
HISTORIC REMINISCENCES.
good measure, but not his eyesight. Rumor has made him the successful conductor of many fugitives to a land of freedom. On one occasion, Mr. Seth Hunt and David Ruggles induced Sheriff Ansel Wright, Sr., to bring a slaveholder and a slave girl, whom he had brought into Northampton, before Judge Charles A. Dewey. The judge gave the woman to understand that having been brought by her master into a free state, she was at liberty to lea ve him if she chose. Through fear of
. her master, she declined to leave him. The sheriff incurred, in conse-quence, quite offensive threats from the slaveholder.
Another station was kept by Mr. Austin Ross, who harbored a young man about a year and a half in one of his chambers, emplo yment being furnished him as a night watchman at Greenville cotton mill. His name was Wilson, and he must have been the same man who m Mr. Hill describes. Mr. Calvin Fairba nks, who for several years was a
RESIDENCE OF REV. E . G. COBB.
citizen of Florence, was one of the heroes of this underground railroad, althoug h the scene of h is exploits was not in this regio n. He was the means of securing freedom to forty-seven slaves.
Among the active workers o n this railroad was Mr. A. P . Critchlow. He acted in concert with Mr. Hill, Mr. Hammond, and others, and frequently gave the fugitives employment in his daguerreotype case factory. Here he did what he couid to shield them a nd prevent recapture, a nd o ne case may not be amiss to record. A sla ve named F rench made good his escape, a nd sought rest in F lorence. His master, or master's half brother, a Mr. King, ca me to the water cure while in pursuit of the runa way. Mr. Cri tchlow sta yed with French a few nights at the mill until King, being unable to find any trace of the slave, left Florence to seek him elsewhere.
The details of the ass ista nce rendered by F lorence Citizens to that unfortunate race in their flig ht for freed om will never be recorded , but e noug h is given here to sho w tha t Flo rence was no t behind in this good work.
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TH~ FLORENCE DRAMATIC CLUB.
llY ARTHUR G. HILL.
AMONG the many institutions of Florence worthy of notice is the Dramatic Club, an organization dating back many years, and showing a record that few amateur theatrical associations can rival. While the tragedies of Shakespeare have not been essayed, and the terpsichorean and nude drama have been across the other border, the range over which the talent of this club has successfully roamed for over a quarter of a century has been so extensive that the individual members of the club have nearly as great a reputation, locally, as the leading actors who have amused and startled the continent during the same period of time.
During the· war of the rebellion, enactect·· in ~he years r86I:-I86s, a live, wide-awake Soldiers' Aid Society was maintained here by the loyal, generous .hearted women .of the village, which received and forwarded the many contributions of clothing, delicacies; comforts, and money to the valiant mc!n at the battle front.
Many entertainments were· presented in private houses, small halls, the little old South schoolhouse, and, upon its completion, in the Florence Hall, which existed for a time iil the so~called high school building here. The money received by the young people for these exhibitions was used to good effect by the Soldiers' Aid Society in the performance of its mission.
Bare walls were the only scenic effects of the first dramas, and the costumes were very crude. The first beard was made from a portion of an old buffalo robe, or formed by a smudge of the easily
btained burnt bottle The first wig,
hough not the hoiowed out half of a
ate r m e I o n , was early as startling,
being silk waste sewed on cotton cloth, and dipped into a dye vat, which, upon that occasion, held magenta colored dy.e. A dirty lipped youth then passed for a Romeo, and a magenta pated comedia n was the omnipresent Irishman with his carefully planned and clumsily executed blunders.
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