Bridge Street 66.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-176 Easthampton NTH.2071 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 66 Bridge Street Historic Name: Asahel
Pomeroy House Uses: Present: museum Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1792 Source: Historical Society Records Style/Form: Federal Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick and stone Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): west porch added ca. 1900. Portico added ca. 1870. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.692 acres Setting: South-facing house is set close to the street, behind a white picket fence.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [66 Bridge Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2071 _ _ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. This property is 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 a late Federal style house, two-and-a-half stories
in height under a slate-covered, side-gable roof whose eaves make full returns to create pedimented gables. The house is five bays wide and three bays deep and it has two interior chimneys.
The windows have large 6/6 sash with architrave surrounds topped by lintels with crown moldings on the first story. On the second story the window surrounds are architrave without the
added lintels. The center door surround is architrave with corner blocks. It has a Gothic Revival style portico with slender corner posts supporting wood tracery at the top, mid-way
along the sides and at the bottom of the portico. The door itself of the entry is six-panel and has its own louvered shutters and narrow flanking sidelights. To this main block of the
house is attached a one-and-a-half story shed roof addition on the north and a hipped Colonial Revival style porch on the west. The porch rests on Doric columns and has fine, square
baluster railings. 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, “The builder of this house was Asahel Pomeroy, a son of General Seth Pomeroy, a famous soldier of the Colonial
Wars and one of the heroes of Bunker Hill. The house was given to the Historical Society in the will of Thomas M. Shepard (1856-1923).” 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. Northampton Historical Society. Representative Families of Northampton, “Seth Pomeroy”, lecture by Thomas Monroe
Shepard; file on Shepard House. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York,
1860.