Elm Street 229.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-14 Easthampton NTH.456 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 229 Elm Street Historic Name: Pratt
House Uses: Present: apartments Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1895 Source: Registry of Deeds, 1895 Atlas of Northampton Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
William F. Pratt, Jr., architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with
dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.381 acres Setting: This house is located on a major thoroughfare through Northampton and is one of a number of high style
Queen Anne houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [229 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.456 ___ 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. The Pratt House is a unique Queen Anne style house in Northampton. It is two-and-a-half stories
high, and like most of its Queen Anne style neighbors, it has a hipped roof from which cross-gables project to give the house a complicated plan and elevation. There us a cross-gable
at the southwest corner, a polygonal tower of three stories at the southeast corner and a cross-gable at the northeast corner. On the north façade a two-story porch under a shed roof
is located between the cross-gable and tower. It is on turned posts with brackets on the first story and arched braces on the second story. The porch has a turned baluster railing with
jigsaw cut ornament. The first floor of the house has clapboard siding and the second is shingle-sided. The gables are ornamented with scalloped shingles to add more variety to the exterior.
The southwest cross gable has a jetty or overhang between the attic and the second floor and again between first and second floors. Consoles support the chamfered bay. Centered on the
slate roof is a hipped dormer. Sash in the house is largely 1/1. 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: “This residence in the Queen Anne style was built on Elm Street c.1895 for
the Pratt family. It is probable that William F. Pratt, Jr., son of William Fenno Pratt and grandson of Thomas Pratt was responsible for its design. Pratt sold the ‘lot of land fronting
on Elm’ to Jennie C. Pratt in 1895; the house appears on the 1895 atlas of the city. W.F. Pratt, Jr. entered the architectural profession in Northampton about 1880, joining his father.
The younger Pratt was not highly successful and was never an important figure in the Northampton building community.” 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, Hampshire County, 477.183, 431.309