Bridge Street 270.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-63 Easthampton NTH.386 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address:
270 Bridge Street Historic Name: John White House Uses: Present: two-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1884-95 Source: atlases of 1884 and 1895 Style/Form:
Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Sided and
windows replaced, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.296 acres Setting: Building faces east on a busy corridor through a residential neighborhood.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [270 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.386 ___ 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 large-scale, Queen Anne style house that is two-and-a-half stories in height under a
front-gabled roof. It has a transverse gable on the north elevation and a two-and-a-half story ell on the west. The vinyl-sided house is three bays wide and has a wrap around porch on
chamfered posts with quarter circle brackets at the eaves and high impost blocks. The porch railings have turned balusters. There is a three-sided bay window on the south elevation of
the main block of the building and a side porch on the north elevation of the ell. A pair of windows is located in the façade gable and other windows in the house have 1/1 and 2/2 sash.
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 1980 Form B, “This two and a half story house was most likely built in the mid-1880s for John White, a laborer.” 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] [270 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.386