Pomeroy Terrace 6-8.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-238 Easthampton NTH.2116 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 6-8 Pomeroy Terrace Historic Name:
Henry Staplin Rental House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Two-family residence Date of Construction: 1886-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen
Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and
windows replaced, ca. 1990 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.328 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house that is set above the Northampton Fairgrounds to the
east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [6-8 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2116 _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 Staplin Rental House is a double house under a pyramidal hipped roof, whose double-residence
nature is reflected in its west façade that is two-and-a-half stories with projecting angled bay on the north and a projecting round tower on the south. The projecting angled bay has
a squared-off, front-gable that projects beyond the lower stories and contains in its field a recessed arched porch opening at the attic level. Between the bay and tower is a stacked
porch through which one enters the house in the center bay. The stacked porch has a shed roof and at each story it is supported by turned Queen Anne style posts and a decorative scroll-cut
railing ornaments the second story. At the rear of the house is a two-and-a-half story ell that follows cross-gabled bays on the north and south elevations. There is a side porch on
the south elevation that also has turned post supports. As this description suggests, the house has the complexity of plan and elevation that was favored by the Queen Anne style for
its visual liveliness and picturesque qualities, both of which the house possesses. 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: “In 1886, Henry Staplin, a Main Street milliner,
purchased parts of lots 1 and 2 on the eastern side of Pomeroy Terrace. These lots resulted from the subdivision of the Samuel Wright estate in 1884. Mr. Staplin never seems to have
lived in this house and probably had it constructed as a rental property. It is one of the most decorative double houses in Northampton, and the only such house 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 401-P. 72
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [6-8 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2116 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 Staplin two-family 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.