Pomeroy Terrace 23.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-187 Easthampton NTH.2077 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 23 Pomeroy Terrace Historic Name: Louis
Sherman House Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1900 Source: Atlas and Directory Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes |
| Date Acreage: 0.298 acres Setting: This house faces east on a tree-shaded residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [23 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2077 _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-and-a-half story house under a pyramidal hipped roof with a front-gabled pavilion
on the east façade, cross-gables on the north and south. The three gabled sections of the house all have openwork barge boards at their eaves – a Gothic Revival architectural feature
that had been current in the 1840s and 50s but here was revived to ornament a Queen Anne style house. house. The Queen Anne style took motifs from the past and combined them in new ways
to provide a picturesque elevation and when the elements were borrowed from the past the building has been called the “Free Classical” version of the Queen Anne. The house is three bays
wide and at the first story an off-center main entry is flanked by a leaded glass stair window on the south and a large fixed light window on the north. A full width porch on turned
posts with King Post shaped braces at the eaves crosses the east façade. It is stacked and has at the second story a single bay of porch with the same turned posts and eaves braces.
A row of modillion blocks ornament the eaves at both porch levels. A two-story ell extends from the west elevation. It is three bays long. Windows at the second story level are paired.
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: “This house was built shortly before 1900 for Louis Sherman, a member of the firm of A. Sherwin & Sons, Main Street clothiers, hatters and
shoes. It was one of the last houses to be built on Pomeroy Terrace, which had been opened about 1850, and, along with Phillips Place, had served an elite clientele. During the latter
part of the 19th century Harrison Avenue, Dryads Green, and Crescent Street were the new areas for up-and-coming, but good houses were still built on Pomeroy Terrace.” 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] [23 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2077 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 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.