Bridge Street 280.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 25C-065 Easthampton NTH.388 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 280-282 Bridge Street Historic Name:
Myron Day House Uses: Present: two-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1875-1885 Source: street directories Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: garage Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows replaced ca. 2000. Second
story of porch enclosed ca. 1970. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.246 acres (Northampton Assessors) Setting: This house faces east towards the Connecticut River.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [280-282 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.388 ___ 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 Myron Day house is a large Queen Anne style house two-and-a-half stories in height under a
front-gable roof. The main block of the house is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep and there is a two-and-a-half story ell on the rear that adds approximately five
bays to the house for a long rectangular plan. The plan is given some variety by a shallow transverse transverse gable bay on the south. Vinyl siding obscures much of the detail that
would have contributed to the house’s Queen Anne style but remaining today are the house’s porches. On the east façade is a full-with porch on turned posts with scroll-cut brackets at
the eaves. It has a railing with turned balusters. A second porch, this one a full two-story porch, is on the south elevation of the ell. These porches are supported on chamfered posts
but also have eaves brackets. Windows are replacement 1/1 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 Form B of 1980, “Myron Day, a farmer, purchased a large parcel of land fronting on Bridge
St. and running northerly to Bates Street about 1880. This house was built as his homestead shortly thereafter. In 1886 he filed a subdivision plan for a new street (originally called
Beacon Street, but later changed to Day Avenue) to run through his land from bridge Stret or Bates Street. At the time this was the most easterly street for residential purposes, along
Bridge Street. The Massachusetts Central Railroad, whose line opened in 1887, and ran easterly from the main north-south line in the center of town, built a bridge across the Connecticut
River just north of the Bridge Street bridge. The tracks ran roughly parallel to Bridge Street and opened up many development opportunities. 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. Hampshire County Registry of Deeds: Book: 8056, Page 251, 251, Book 1791, Page 13, Book, 1009, Page 363, Book, 923, Page 338,
Book. 405, Page 151, Hampshire County Registry of Probate/Family and Probate Court Docket #02P0386EP Northampton Directories: 1875-76; 1885-86; 1895-96.