Bridge Street 46.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 32A-175 Easthampton NTH.2070 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 46 Bridge Street Historic Name: Isaac
Damon House Uses: Present: museum Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1812 Source: The Northampton Book Style/Form: Federal Architect/Builder: Isaac Damon, architect
Exterior Material: Foundation: granite blocks, brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: not visible and asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: gazebo Major Alterations (with dates):
museum ell added. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.534 acres Setting: This south-facing building is set on a deep lot. On its west is a shopping center. The tree-shaded
section of Bridge Street at this point begins the residential section of the street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [46 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2070 ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. This property is already on the National Register. 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 Northampton’s finest examples of high-style
Federal architecture. It is a two-story building under a low hipped roof that is encircled by a latticed balustrade topped by urn ornaments. There are two interior chimneys extending
above the roof. The main block of the house is five bays wide and three bays deep and windows have 6/6 sash. The center entry on the south façade has a portico with matching balustrade
on its hipped roof and is supported on two Doric columns with respondent pilasters. The door surround is an architrave surround that is repeated for the windows. The clapboard-sided
house rests on dressed stone foundations. On the north side of the building are two ells. A two-story ell under a gable roof, followed by a one-and-a-half story ell, which is a 20th
century addition. There is a one-story entry addition in the angle between the main block and the ells. It has a circular brownstone stoop leading to its single-leaf door. The one-and-a-half
story ell has an arcaded porch on its east elevation. It is six bays long, three of which bays are French doors, two are windows with 6/6 sash and one bay is a secondary entry. There
is an exterior wall chimney on the north end of the ell. A gazebo is located at the north east corner of the property. 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 Form B of 1970, “Isaac Damon, an
architect of national renown, constructed this imposing house for his own home in 1812. In addition to the house, Damon erected 13 churches, 25 bridges, and 14 other buildings including
several notable factories. The house was naturally built in the best fashion of the day, since Damon is thought to have studied under Asher Benjamin and Ithiel Towne, two other early
architects active in the Connecticut River Valley.” 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. Merrill, David Oliver. Isaac Damon and the Architecture of the Federal Period in New England, Yale Ph.D. dissertation, 1965. Miller,
D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1895. Putnam, Karl. The Northampton Book, Part III. Registry
of Deeds, Book 983, Page 378. Springfield Union, August 29, 1959. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire
County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.