Pomeroy Terrace 28.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-234 Easthampton NTH.2112 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 28 Pomeroy Terrace Historic Name: Edgar
Crooke House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1885-1886 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, 2/16/1886 Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Charles H. Jones Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asbestos shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x| yes | | Date Acreage: 1.54 acres Setting: This house is set on a ridge above the flood plain of the Connecticut River on the east. It is
west-facing.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [28 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2112 __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 one of the two grandest houses on Pomeroy Terrace, the second being at #2, and both were
designed by the same architect, Charles H. Jones. Here the two-and-a-half story house is L-shaped in plan with a front-gabled section three bays wide and a wing section under a jerkin
head roof three bays in width. In the angle of the two sections are a three-story tower under a pyramidal roof, a two-story tower under a flat roof, and in their angle a one-story rounded
bay. An angled bay at the house’s southeast corner is topped by a gazebo porch on turned posts. The exterior of the house is given visual interest by bands of shingles and clapboards
separated by belt and stringcourses and in the front gable eaves make a return to form a deep pediment that is supported by a row of consoles that are separated by a band of vertical
windows. This is a complicated house that meets the style’s aim to be picturesque by the variety of its architectural features. 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 Queen
Anne House was designed by C.H. Jones, local artist and architect, for E.F. Crooks. Crooks was the superintendent of Belding Brothers & Company, Silk Manufacturers. C.H. Jones designed
a number of houses in the Northampton 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [28 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2112 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 Crooke 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 house was designed by architect Charles H. Jones who built few things,
but all of which were high style. His work deserves more research. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.