Pomeroy Terrace 20.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-235 Easthampton NTH.2113 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 20 Pomeroy Terrace Historic Name: Sylvanus
Sherman House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1884 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Sylvanus Sherman, Builder, attributed
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: //Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.652 acres Setting: This house is set on a ridge above the the flood plain of the Connecticut River on the east. It faces west.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [20 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2113 _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 modest house that is stylistically transitional between the Italianate and the Queen
Anne. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a steeply-pitched front-gabled roof. The main block of the house is three bays wide and has a full-width shed roofed porch across its
west façade. The porch rests on chamfered Italianate posts with arched braces at the eaves. The house has a two-story ell on the east. On the south elevation of the ell is a cross-gabled
bay. An angled bay of two stories projects from the south elevation of the main block of the house and in between the two bays is a recessed porch two stories in height. Italianate in
style is the arched window in the gable field of the west façade but the overall complexity of the house’s plan and elevation is newly Queen Anne. 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
1980: “Sylvanus Sherman bought lot 3 of the Wright Estate Plan for the eastern side of Pomeroy Terrace. These lots extended from Bridge Street southerly to M.M. French’s house, which
was opposite Phillips Place. Easterly the lots extended over the low bluff and into the meadows. This was one of the more ‘aristocratic’ neighborhoods in Northampton and the lots were
able to fetch fetch prices as high as $1500, which is what Mr. Sherman paid. He was a carpenter and probably built this house himself.” 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. 402-P. 409, 389-235, 388-225, 387-315
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [20 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2113 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 Sylvanus Sherman 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.