Bridge Street 351.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 25A-108 Easthampton NTH.372 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 351 Bridge Street Historic Name: Moses
Elwell House Uses: Present: two-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1881 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette July 26, 1881 Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asbestos shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Barn Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: fair Moved: no |
x | yes | | Date Acreage: 2.5 acres Setting: This house is set on a ridge that runs parallel to the Connecticut River valley on the east. Its lot slopes down to the east and the house
is set close to the street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [351 Bridge Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.372 _x__ 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 one of two Gothic Revival style houses on this stretch of Bridge Street and like the William
Hill House at 323 Bridge Street, it is one-and-a-half stories in height and gable-and-wing in plan. The Elwell House has had fewer alterations than the Hill House, however, so represents
the style very well. The Gothic Revival roof is steeply pitched and on the wing section it has has a jerkin head roof. On the gable section it has a steeply-pitched gabled roof. In the
angle of the two house sections is an open porch that rests on a single post that is braced at the eaves. There are respondent pilasters at the wall of the porch with braces. The porch
railing is made up of fine, square balusters. There is a two-story ell on the east elevation for a long T-shaped plan. The stylistic character of the house is largely carried by the
windows and their surrounds. In the gable section on the west façade at the second story is a pair of lancet windows under a pointed surround. The first floor is occupied by a three-sided
bay on a paneled base. A second three-sided bay window is located on the south elevation of the wing. Windows on the north elevation have Gothic label lintels and there are two hipped
dormers on the roof of the north elevation. 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 1975, “This clapboarded cottage was built in 1881 for Moses Elwell. The firm of Wm. F. Pratt and
Son furnished the plans. The house lot once consisted of five acres. Three acres of the original lot were sold when Interstate Route 91 was constructed. The proximity of I-91 to this
end of Bridge Street may still affect the houses close to it. Note on map that there are only two houses between I-91 and the Bridge Street cottages (351 and 337).” 337 Bridge Street
has since been moved. 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.