Bridge Street 344.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 map. Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning
Commission Date (month /year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 25A-101 Easthampton NTH.371 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 344
Bridge Street Historic Name: Alpheus Lyman House, attr. Uses: Present: two-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1865 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form:
Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): siding added
ca. 1990; second story porch enclosed post 1976; windows replaced post 1976; polygonal room added to ell, ca. 1990. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.67 acres Setting:
This house faces east on a busy residential street running on a ridge parallel to the Connecticut River.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON [344 Bridge Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.371 ___ 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. Although this house has had considerable alterations including siding and enclosing of a porch,
it retains much of its original Italianate detail and form. The house is two stories in height under a nearly flat roof. It is T-shaped in plan with a main block approximately five bays
wide and one bay deep, a transverse gable bay on the front that one bay wide, and ells on the west of two stories and one story. The house has widely-overhanging eaves that are supported
on paired brackets, an Italianate decorative feature that is repeated at the eaves of the three-sided bay windows on the east and south elevations. A wide frieze beneath the eaves contains
attic grilles – a feature that was often used in the Italianate style. The front (east) transverse bay has a two-story, three-sided bay with arched windows that now contain 1/1 sash.
In the angle of the main block and the transverse gable is a porch. The first story of the porch has a hipped roof and is supported on paired Italianate chamfered posts on high plinths.
The porch roof has modillion blocks at its eaves and its railing repeats the arch in a jig-saw-cut pattern. A smaller second story stacked porch has been enclosed. Windows in the house
have footed lintels and the two story ell on the west has an enclosed side porch and added polygonal room of one story at its south west corner. There is one chimney on the roof. 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 1976, “This bracketed residence was built on upper Bridge Street around 1865. The parcel was known as the Alpheus Lyman homestead in an 1864 deed to
the Graves family. The dwelling house, although not specifically mentioned was probably erected shortly before or after this transfer.” 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. Hampshire County Registry of Deeds, Book 1203 page
412; Book 861 page 67; Book 756 page 59; Book 690, page 135; Book 676 page 453; Book 666 page 101; Book 417 page 137; Book 405 page 449; Book 220. page 259 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 [344 Bridge Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.371