Pomeroy Terrace 48.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-229 Easthampton NTH.2108 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 48 Pomeroy Terrace Historic Name: Rev.
Rufus Ellis House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1847 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: flushboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Rear shed-roofed entry added, side
porch enclosed on south, south French doors infilled partially ca. 1990. Condition: good Moved: Moved: no | | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.233 acres Setting:
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [48 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2108 _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 Rev. Ellis House is a fine Italianate style house, like most of its neighbors on Pomeroy Terrace
and Phillips Place. It is a flushboard-sided, two story house under a flat roof with wide, bracket-supported eaves. Centered on the roof is a glazed belvedere with segmentally arched
windows separated by paneled pilasters, a feature found elsewhere on these two streets. The main main block of the house is three bays wide on the west façade and the equivalent of three
bays deep for a square plan. First floor windows are full-length and all windows have eared architrave surrounds with projecting crown-molded lintels. Windows have paired sash of mixed
2/2 and 1/1 lights. The sidehall entry on the west façade is sheltered by a flat roofed porch that rests on paired Italianate posts on high pedestals and correspondent pilasters. Scroll-cut
brackets ornament the bracketed porch eaves. A railing has arch-shaped openings like its neighbor at 44 Pomeroy Terrace. A polygonal bay window is located on the south elevation of the
main block of the house. The house also has a two-story ell on the east with bracketed eaves. It has a one-story enclosed side porch and added entry on its south elevation. 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 residence on Pomeroy Terrace was first occupied by Reverend Rufus Ellis who did not, however, own the dwelling or the land on which it was built.
Edward Clarke sold the land and house, ‘the premises… being the homestead for many years past occupied by Reverend Rufus Ellis’ to Mary Ann Cochran in 1853. The Clarke family opened
Phillips Place in 1847 shortly following the death of Christopher Clarke, and lot 11 (48 Pomeroy Terrace) was vacant at that time. (Registry of Deeds 119.201). 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: 378.427, 292.81, 275.49, 152.321
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sheet 2 NTH.2108 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. This 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.