Elm Street 187.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 31A-40 Easthampton NTH.469 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 187 Elm Street Historic Name: Sidney
Clark House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1849 Source: deeds Style/Form: Greek Revival/Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: clapboard and flushboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.302 acres Setting: House occupies a corner lot, its façade on the side street rather than the main street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [187 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.469 ___ 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 with a side gable roof. It is stylistically transitional between
the Greek Revival and the Italianate styles. It is five bays wide and two bays deep and there is a one-and-a-half story wing on the north followed by an attached garage. The distinctive
Greek Revival style features of this house are the broad corner pilasters supporting a full entablature with a wide architrave and frieze separated by a fillet, and the broad, recessed
entry with ¾ length sidelights . Also Greek Revival in origin are the full eaves returns in the gables to create a pediment that is flushboarded to replicate in wood a stone Greek temple.
Stylistically transitional is the center hipped roof porch on fluted Ionic columns. Rather than resting directly on the porch or on low pedestals as the Greek Revival style required,
these columns, in the Italianate style, rest on high pedestals, making the columns half-length. A railing of turned balusters connects them. First floor windows have crown molding lintels
with a row of fine dentils topping an Italianate pair of windows with 1/1 sash. The pairing of window sash from ca. 1850 on was a feature that aimed to provide increased light to the
interior and to suggest the full-length windows of the Italian piano nobile. A Palladian window composition in the tympanum of the pediment is rather rare for the early date of the house
but shows its stylistic sophistication. Three-sided bay windows with arched window sash on south and west add spatial complexity to the house plan and additional light to its interior.
Introducing more light and air into the interior was a particular concern from mid-century to improve health and is visible here in the Sidney Clark 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
Form B of 1976: “In 1849, William Clark sold one-third of an acre to Sidney L. Clark for $250. This was the ‘land on which Sidney has built a dwelling house in which he now lives.’ Sidney
Clark was in the office of the Florence Manufacturing Co., and lived here until 1854 when he sold the property to the Bridgeman Brothers: Thomas Jr., William S., Edward M., and Charles
J. For the next sixty years at least one of the brothers was listed here. The last, Charles J. Bridgeman, died c. 1920.” 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 199-P.395 and 9, 155-10 and 125, 129-196