Bridge Street 227.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-240 Easthampton NTH.413 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address:
227 Bridge Street Historic Name: Uses: Present: two-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1835-1840 Source: maps of 1831 and 1856 Style/Form: Greek Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl and shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): House
sided and windows replaced ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.388 acres Setting: This house is at the top of a ridge that runs parallel to the Connecticut
River and its lot slopes down to the east and the flood plain.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [227 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.413 ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much
space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate
the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. The Lyman House is a large version of the Greek Revival style house, as it is two-and-a-half stories,
five bays wide and four bays deep under a front-gable roof whose eaves make full returns to form a pediment. More commonly a front-gable Greek Revival style house in Northampton is three
bays wide and gains its space through ells, but the slope of the lot may have influenced this particular elevation. The house has been vinyl-sided and shingles remain in the pediment;
windows are replacement 1/1 sash so much of the building’s historical detail has been lost. There is a three-sided bay window on the north and a hipped portico on posts – both of which
are later additions to the house. Panelled pilasters frame the door opening. 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 1975 Form B, “A number of simpler Greek Revival residences are located
on Bridge Street and served as farmhouses in the 19th century when the prime agricultural land, “the Meadows”, was actively farmed.” 1860: L. Lyman or J. L. Munyon 1873-L. Lyman 1884
B. E. Cook 1885 1895 F. R. Ruder 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] [227 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.413