Bridge Street 235.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-241 Easthampton NTH.414 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address:
235-237 Bridge Street Historic Name: Uses: Present: three-family house Original: two-family house Date of Construction: 1923 Source: integral plaque Style/Form: Craftsman Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: stucco and vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: poor Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.162 acres Setting: This house is part of a mixed residential and commercial neighborhood on a busy thoroughfare
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [235-237 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.414 ___ 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 Craftsman style house that is two stories in height under a hipped roof with exposed
rafters at its eaves. The house is six bays deep and four wide and it has an entry on the north end under a pedimented open trellis and a second entry at the side of an enclosed porch
that occupies the center three bays of the building’s façade. The enclosed porch is vinyl-sided as is a two-story ell on the east and a one-story wing two bays long on the south. An
integral date stone on the façade reads, “1923”. 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. This house was built in 1923 and in 1925 half of it was occupied by John and Marion Berestka. John listed
himself as a farmer and both he and Marion were Polish immigrants. By 1930 John had become a restaurant cook, and the Berestkas were still living at this address with their son John,
Jr. The second half of the house was occupied by Garry and Minnie Church in 1925. Garry also was an immigrant, from Switzerland arriving in 1918. Minnie was born in Vermont. Garry worked
first in Springfield as a truck chauffeur where he and Minnie had lived with his mother in 1920. When they moved to this house in Northampton Garry worked briefly as a mechanic but then
got a job as a chauffeur for the Veterans’ Hospital. But by 1931 Minnie was gone and Garry had moved to Orchard Street but continued to work for the Veterans’ Hospital. 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. Northampton directories 1922-24, 1930.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [235-237 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.414