Bridge Street 149.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: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-245 Easthampton NTH.2122 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 149 Bridge Street Historic Name:
Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1910 Source: atlas and directory Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Chester
White, Builder, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Brick commercial building at rear. Major Alterations
(with dates): Vinyl siding and vinyl replacement windows added ca. 2005. Condition: good Moved: Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.459 acres Setting: Set at the edge of a large
open space, this house is west-facing and is placed close to the street on an eastward-sloping lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [149 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2122 _x__ 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 one of several houses on Bridge Street that has a very modest main block, but which takes
on a Queen Anne stylistic presence by a corner tower. The house is two-and-a-half stories in height and square in plan with the corner tower inset into the angle between a front-gabled
section and a transverse gable bay. To add complexity to the plan, there is a rear one-and-a-half story ell with an exposed basement on the east. The front-gabled section of the house
and the tower are linked by a porch that traverses from the west façade around to the south. The hipped roof porch is a combination of the Colonial Revival style and the Queen Anne style,
which is not unusual for the ca. 1910 date of the house: Colonial Revival Doric columns with an unusual Queen Anne style bracketed frieze ornament. Queen Anne in style, as well, is the
four-sided roof of the tower with an ogee profile. On the north and west faces of the tower roof are triangular windows in triangular surrounds. This idiosyncratic motif is repeated
on the south roof of the house with a triangular dormer with low side walls. Queen Anne multi-paned stair windows are located at the first and second floors of the tower. There is a
one-story brick commercial building behind the house on the east. It has a shed roof. 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 previous Form B prepared in 1980, “This house was built on part of
the Josiah Parsons homestead 131 Bridge Street. Chester White, the builder of 222 Bridge Street is probably the builder of this house as well.” BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers,
F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Hales, John G. Plan of the Town of 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. Northampton Directory 1915 and 1918 Hampshire County, Registry of Deeds, Book 6303, Page 273; Book, 1576, Page 1; Book 1570, Page
139; Book 881, Page 316; Hampshire County, Registry of Probate, Estate of Frank Borowaki, Docket Number 28761.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [149 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2122 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This house would contribute to a potential Pomeroy Terrace historic district that developed south and east of the Bridge
Street Cemetery from the second third of the 19th century as Northampton’s finest residential district. Original residents here were merchants, retired farmers, lawyers, and other professions.
As the century progressed the adjacent streets were laid out for the growing middle class with railroad personnel joining clerks, teachers, and others. Architecturally the potential
historic district is significant for the fine examples of the 19th century architectural styles from the Greek and Gothic Revivals, Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles.
The district includes significant examples of the work of Northampton architect William Fenno Pratt. The house is among a number of houses built by Chester White of Northampton, all
of which carry his distinctive features. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.