Bridge Street 207.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 Please see attached continuation sheet. Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley
Planning Commission Date (month /year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 25C-239 Easthampton NTH.412 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address:
207 Bridge Street Historic Name: Henry and Mary Foxon House Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1910 Source: Registry of
Deeds Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with
dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.372 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house on a busy residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [207 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.412 ___ 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 conservative version of the Colonial Revival style house, though it was also curiously
progressive. It is two stories in height beneath a truncated hipped roof of slate. As recently as 1980 the roof was still crowned with a cresting rail, a feature that was largely outdated
by 1910. The clapboard-sided house has brick foundations and is a simple three bays wide and four bays deep. It has a hipped roof porch on Colonial Revival style fluted posts and a simple
flat stock surround on its entry. There is a wide frieze beneath the eaves but the lack of additional Colonial Revival style ornament may have been due to a modest budget. What is progressive
for its ca. 1910 construction date, however, is the use of two large, single-glazed windows flanking the entry. Rather than windows with multiple lights or even a transom light, the
builder of the house used the most up-to-date window design and the resulting combination of 19th and 20th century architectural features produced a unique house. 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.
In 1895 this was the side lot of the house of James and Susan Munyan who were farmers. At some point after 1895 the Munyan house was removed and around 1910 this house was erected for
Henry and Mary Foxon and their children Roy, Fern, Herbert and George. The family had come to Massachusetts from Wisconsin and Henry was a gardener for a private family. He continued
in that profession through 1930. In 1930 the Foxon’s house was valued at $10,000, a not inconsiderable amount. George Foxon, the youngest child was in Northampton at a different address
as late as 1959. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Registry of Deeds: Book 705 page 347; book 658 page 75; Book 638 page 98. Northampton Directory of 1915 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] [207 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.412