Phillips Place 58.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-190 Easthampton NTH.2079 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 58 Phillips Place (formerly 47 Pomeroy
Terrace) Historic Name: Watson L. Smith House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1865 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, 12/26/65,
11/30/66 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: William F. Pratt, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary
Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): East porch enclosed, entrance added on south, ca. 1970. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.248 acres Setting: This house
occupies a corner lot at the intersection of two residential streets.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [47 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2079 __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 two-story Italianate style house under a flat roof that has wide, bracket-supported eaves.
Paired brackets with pendants frame metal attic grilles on several elevations, which is an Italianate feature found elsewhere on Phillips Place. Currently the primary entrance is on
the south elevation facing on to Phillips Place, but originally the main entrance was on the east east elevation, now Pomeroy Terrace. The east elevation is four bays wide and centered
on it is a rectangular plan pavilion of two stories. At first floor level, what was originally a full-width porch across the east façade has been partially enclosed except for the northernmost
two bays that remain as a corner porch on Doric columns. The porch entry has globe-topped balusters and later-added, wrought iron railings. The new south entrance has a hipped roof portico
resting on heavy Doric columns. This elevation is three bays wide and windows have architrave surrounds with crown molding lintels on brackets and replacement 1/1 vinyl sash. There is
an angled, two-story bay window in the angle between the west ell and the main block. It has arched windows whose sash has been replaced with square vinyl, 1/1 sash with the arch glazing
left intact. Clearly this house has lost much of its original appearance in the conversion to a three-family residence, yet retains enough of its form to suggest its Italianate origins
designed by William Fenno Pratt. 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 Phillips Place residence was built in 1865-1866 for Watson L. Smith. Like many other residences of
various styles in the Pomeroy Terrace-Phillips Place area, his bracketed residence was designed by William F. Pratt. The Smith House cost $5000 and was described by the Gazette as ‘one
of the handsomest dwellings in that locality.’ While not outstanding, the house is included in the inventory as it is a William Pratt work and it supports and enhances the other Pratt
residences in the Phillips Place-Pomeroy Terrace area.” 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: 967.128, 231.532
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [47 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2079 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 Smith 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, including the Smith House whose alterations could be reversed. This potential
historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.