Pomeroy Terrace 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-227 Easthampton NTH.2107 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 58 Pomeroy Terrace Historic Name: Thomas
Green House Uses: Present: Church offices Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1849-1850 Source: Registry of Deeds & Daily Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: Exotic Revival/Swiss
Chalet Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt Exterior Material: Foundation: brick and stone Wall/Trim: board and batten Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Two church buildings
Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good/fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.289 acres Setting: This building faces west on a lot that accommodates two other late 20th
century buildings.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [58 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2107 _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 Thomas Green House is the second of two Swiss Chalet style houses designed by William Fenno
Pratt for the Phillips Place/Pomeroy Terrace neighborhood, and of the two it is the more classical version of the style. William Fenno Pratt had a taste for the exotic in architecture
having designed the Northampton City Hall among other buildings in a more theatrical, rarified style. Here the main block of the house is L-shaped in plan, and it has a five-bay, two
story ell extending on the east elevation. The building is board-and-batten sided and its roof has broad eaves supported on over-scaled, scrolled brackets. The gables of both sections
of the house have Swiss wood cresting rails ornamenting their upper rakes, and across the second story of the wing is a Swiss-inspired balcony with flat, jig-saw cut balustrade. The
gable section of the house is one bay wide and at the first floor level it has an oriel window with a flared roof; at the second floor level is a three-sash window under a single bracketed
lintel. On the south elevation are two bays with at first floor level French doors opening to small, bracket-supported balconies. At the second floor level window openings are smaller
but are also ornamented with small balconies. The wing is three bays long and has a low, railed porch below the second story balcony. Windows and doors have bracketed lintels on the
wing and on the east ell. 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 Swiss Cottage on Pomeroy Terrace was designed by William Fenno Pratt, local architect, and built between
1849 and 1853, probably in 1850. Thomas Green, the original owner, bought the principal parcels of land from J.H. Butler and H. Clarke in 1849; his homestead was built by 183, at which
time he acquired additional sections of the land from various individuals. A second Swiss Cottage was built during this period on Phillips Place. William Gaylord purchased the residence
in 1860 for $8000 and made improvements on it. Gaylord was an industrialist, legislator, and trustee of the State Hospital.” 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] [58 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2107 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.