Berkshire Terrace 3.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: PVPC Date (month /year): 10/2010 Assessor’s Number
USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 23B-067 Easthampton NTH.240 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 3-5 Berkshire Terrace Historic Name: Horace and Julia Packard House
Uses: Present: two-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1870-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds and atlas Style/Form: gable-and-wing form Architect/Builder: Horace
Packard, builder, attr. Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Shingle sided, ca. 1940
Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.403 acres Setting: This house is on a corner lot on a terrace that slopes precipitously down to the east. Shrubbery is overgrown
and hides the house.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [3-5 Berkshire Terrace] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.240 ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much
space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate
the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This is a modest gable-and-wing form house that may have more stylistic detailing in the past,
but which is no longer present. The front-gable section of the house (#3) is two-and-a-half stories in height, and the wing (#5), under a side-gable roof is one-and-a-half stories in
height. The front-gable section is three bays wide and four bays long and its windows contain 2/2 sash. The wing is two bays long and one deep. Uniting the two sections is a one-story
porch on fluted posts that wraps from the west, to south and across the west side of the wing. The main block has two entries, one on the street or west façade and one on the south elevation.
Shingle siding covers what may have been a more elaborate surround on the west, but the south opening is more prominent with a door flanked by windows as sidelights. The door surround
of the wing (#5) is a thin architrave surround and two through-cornice dormers rise above the level of the eaves. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building. Explain its
associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. From the Form B of 1980, “In 1870 Horace and
Julia Packard bought lots no. 1 and 2 on Baldwin and Goodwin’s subdivision plan for land between South Main Street and Main Street, as bounded on the east by the terrace drop-off for
Broughton’s Brook. The Packards paid $450 for the two lots, and as Mr. Packard was a carpenter, he probably built the house himself. “ BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County
Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Hales, John G. Plan of the Town or Northampton in the County of Hampshire, 1831. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and
Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map
of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [3-5 Berkshire Terrace] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.240