Phillips Place 24 Barn.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):
May, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-195 Easthampton NTH.2084 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 24 Phillips Place Historic Name: Dickinson
Carriage Barn Uses: Present: storage barn Original: carriage barn Date of Construction: 1885-1895 Source: Atlas of Northampton Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good/fair Moved: no | x | yes |
| Date Acreage: 0.181 acres Setting: This carriage barn faces south on a residential street street on which there are other carriage barns as well.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [24 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2084 _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 a striking carriage barn in the Queen Anne style. It is two-and-a-half stories in height
under a gable-on-hip roof, which is an unusual roof form for an outbuilding. A pavilion projects from the south façade. Its front-gabled roof is ornamented with a King Post truss with
trefoil tracery in its openings. At first story level the pavilion has a double-leaf barn door opening and at the second story is an arched door opening with a sliding door for loading
hay into the second story loft. At each side of the pavilion on the first story is a pedestrian door with 8-light transom. At the second story is a single window with 8/2 sash. The carriage
barn is clapboard sided on the first story, fish-scale shingle sided on the second story, and the two stories are separated by a flaring jetty. 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 well-built shingled barn was erected on Phillips Place between 1884 and 1895, probably on land owned by C.H. Dickinson.” Charles Dickinson owned both this property and the
one next door at 22 Phillips Place. He owned a millinery story in Northampton but retired in his 60s and lived through 1920 at #22. 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] [24 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2084 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 Butler carriage barn 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. It represents the once-ubiquitous carriage barns the formerly accompanied
most homes. 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 potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.