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Bridge Street 396.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): 10/2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 25A-64 Easthampton NTH.366 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 396 Bridge Street Historic Name: Frank and Hattie Clark House Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1900-1915 Source: maps and atlases Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Chester White, attr. Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asphalt and tar paper shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: A garage built 1925 Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: poor Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.219 acres Setting: House is very near the intersection with I-91, so is in a busy area. It has a large corner lot that has mature trees. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET NORTHAMPTON] [396 Bridge Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.366 ___ 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 two-and-a-half story house under a hipped roof. Like its neighbors at 222 Bridge Street and 274 Bridge Street this house has a hipped roof pavilion that projects from the east façade. The pavilion contains the entrance to the house and an adjacent large, fixed-light window. The pavilion is crossed by a porch on Gothic posts. A three-sided oriel window under a polygonal roof is located on the south elevation. The south elevation is five bays deep, and includes a side entry with a shed roof hood. Dormers on the roof, like those on the houses at 222 and 274 Bridge Street are triangular and glazed. Trim is also similar to the other houses with a cornice supported on a row of fine brackets, molded architrave surrounds on the windows and the small brackets repeated on the dormers. Given the idiosyncratic similarities among these three houses, it is highly likely that this house was the work of builder Chester White. 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, “This large, 2 ½ story house was built in the early 20th century on one of J. W. Hubbard’s subdivision lots. Hubbard had opened up his homestead to residential development in 1891, and this was one of the few lots available that was directly on Bridge Street. Most of the other lots were located on the newly created Hubbard Avenue, and Marshall, Swan and Crosby Streets.” 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.