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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-184 Easthampton NTH.2076 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 81 Bridge Street Historic Name: Henry
Lathrop House Uses: Present: 12-unit house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1790-1809; remodeled 1859 Source: Registry of Deeds; Daily Hampshire Gazette March 8, 1859.
Style/Form: Federal house altered to Italianate style Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt for 1859 alterations Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Federal house altered to to Italianate in 1859. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.583 acres Setting:
This is a north-facing house, set close to the street. I has a row of shrubbery screening the first floor rooms and mature trees on its lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [81 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2076 _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. Built close in time and style to its neighbor at 66 Bridge Street, a late Federal style building,
this house is two stories in height under a hipped roof and began life as a Federal style house. The hipped roof allowed an architect in 1859 to alter the house to Italianate style with
a few changes so that it more closely resembled its neighbors at 74 and 66 Bridge Street, both of which are Italianate. The house has a center transverse gable that was added to its
façade roof as well as wide Italianate eaves and a broad frieze beneath the eaves. In the frieze are Italianate windows and grilles. The house is entered through a portico on paneled
posts that are paired at the front and have respondent paneled pilasters framing entry sidelights. The porch roof has a balustrade that acts to create a second floor porch. It is reached
by a door topped with an arched fanlight and flanked by Italianate arched sidelights. Window lintels are molded serlianas. The windows of the façade have architrave surrounds beneath
entablatures with projecting cornices. Window sash is 6/6. At the southwest corner of the main block of the house is a rounded bay window two stories high. There is a two-story, three-sided
bay window on the east elevation as well. Its second story windows are arched. Attached to the south elevation of the house is a two-story ell and a one-story wing at right angles to
it. The ell is six bays long and has a one-story entry on concrete foundations. The ell entry has a hood on consoles, suggesting this section of ell may have been integral to the original
house. 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 house was built by Asahel Wright between the time of his purchase of the 1 ½ acre plot from his father in 1790 for $300 and
the time of its sale to James Bull in 1809 for $1300. The house is not earlier than 1790, although a dwelling house was mentioned in the 1790 deed. Daniel Stebbins and his family held
the parcel of land and the house until 1859 at which time Daniel Stebbins died and his daughter Clarissa S. Lathrop acquired the property. She and her husband Henry Lathrop resided in
the house through the turn of the century; the deeds were carefully worded to insure that the wife would not not be deprived of her property on the death or estrangement of her husband
(Note the Lathrop’s were married on 26 September 1849 in Northampton and Henry Lathrop died on 26 November 1888. William Fenno Pratt, architect, redesigned the house in 1859 for the
Lathrops. At about the same time he remodeled a late 18th century dwelling across the street and designed two parsonages, for the Catholic and Congregational societies; all are still
standing: three on Bridge Street and one on King Street.” 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [81 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2076 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Lathrop House would contribute to a potential Pomeroy Terrace historic district that developed south and east of the
Bridge Street Cemetery from the second third of the 19th century as Northampton’s finest residential district. Original residents here were merchants, retired farmers, lawyers, and other
professions. As the century progressed the adjacent streets were laid out for the growing middle class with railroad personnel joining clerks, teachers, and others. Architecturally the
potential historic district is significant for the fine examples of the 19th century architectural styles from the Greek and Gothic Revivals, Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival
styles. The district includes significant examples of the work of Northampton architect William Fenno Pratt. This house is a good example of the alteration work that Pratt did on a number
of houses in Northampton to bring them to a new level of style and design. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.