Phillips Place 24 House.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 32A-195 Easthampton NTH.2083 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 24 Phillips Place Historic Name:
The Elizabeth Butler House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1850 Source: Registry of Deeds, 119.201, 138.208 Style/Form:
Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: flushboard Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Ell addition
and side porch enclosed post-1980. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.181 acres Setting: This house faces south on a raised lot in a neighborhood of mid-19th c.
houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [24 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2083 _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. The Butler House was an early example of the Italianate style in Northampton as the style didn’t
appear until ca. 1850 in New England. It is a two-story house under a virtually flat roof with wide eaves that are modillion-block ornamented. The house is flushboard sided to emulate
the smooth surface of and Italian stone palazzo and it has pilasters as its cornerboards. The main block of the house is three bays wide and one bay deep and is followed by a two-story
ell that was extended after 1980 to accommodate several extra bays or residential space. There is a porch on the east elevation that has been enclosed for two-family use of the house.
A porch is centered on the central bay of the south façade. It rests on chamfered posts that have high pedestals. The porch roof has an open pediment and its eaves are ornaments as on
the main roof with curved modillion blocks. Windows of the three bay façade have replacement sash and projecting molded lintels. This building contributes to the number of Italianate
style buildings on Phillips Place. 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 1975: “This transitional style residence was built in Phillips Place circa 1850. Edward Clarke began selling
parcels in Phillips Place in 1847. In 1851, Clarke sold to William Tillotson lot #3, ‘a certain piece of land with buildings thereon situated…the same premises formerly occupied by widow
Elizabeth Butler.’ Clarke had acquired the lots from Abigail Clarke in 1847; the house was probably built on the property at this time.” 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: 138.218, 120.483, 119.201
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [24 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2083 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 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 potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting,
design and materials.