Crescent Street 102.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 24D-252 Easthampton NTH.348 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 102 Crescent Street Historic Name:
William C. Pomeroy House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1887 Source: Atlases & Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form:
Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Shingle siding
added and attic windows installed, ca. 1980. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.262 acre Setting: This house occupies a corner lot that is raised. It is facing the
northeast.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [102 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.348 __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 an unusual roof composition for a two-and-a-half story house as it is a pyramidal hipped
roof from which extend two wings so that only a small portion of the hipped roof is visible from the street. The wing on the façade is two bays wide and one bay deep and the wing on
the north elevation is three bays wide and one bay deep. A third wing, a two-and-a-half story ell projects from the west elevation. Two shed-roofed porches fit into the angles of the
wings. They both rest on turned posts with brackets at the eaves and turned balusters in the railings connecting the posts. The porches both have ornamentally cut aprons. The house has
2/2 sash. 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 1980: “Crescent Street was laid out in 1886, continuing the cut Henshaw Avenue had made midway along the slopes of Round Hill. The street
encircled the hill, ending up back on Elm Street. By 1895, most of the lots between Summer Street and Round Hill Road had been developed. The house was built in 1887 for William Pomeroy,
a foreman for the Norwood Engineering Company in Florence.” 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] [102 CRESCENT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.348 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 Pomeroy House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor,
Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few
gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years
to the present. Architecturally it is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles
of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Pomeroy House is a modest example of the Queen Anne style and would contribute to
the district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.