Pomeroy Terrace 83.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-221 Easthampton NTH.2103 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 83 Pomeroy Terrace Historic Name: Leonard
G. Field House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1868-1870 Source: Registry of Deeds, Gazette, 11/19/67 Style/Form: French Second
Empire Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.303 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot with with a wide, well-landscaped side yard.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [83 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2103 _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 Field House is a good example of the French Second Empire, the only example in this neighborhood
of mainly Italianate style houses on Phillips Place and Pomeroy Terrace. It is a two-and-a-half story house three bays wide and the equivalent of three bays deep; there are two ells
on the west, one of one-and-a-half stories and the second of one-story. The French Second Empire style shared many architectural features with the Italianate style and here the slate-covered
mansard roof has been constructed with wide Italianate style eaves that are supported on paired brackets. There is a cross-gable wing on the north and a wraparound porch that crosses
the east and south elevations and turns on to the west elevation. The porch is supported on posts with high impost blocks and its railing has an arched cutout pattern seen elsewhere
on the street. The porch roof has paired brackets at its eaves as well. Wide corner pilasters frame the building. There are pedimented dormers on the roof on the east, north and south
elevations. They have brackets at their eaves as well. Windows elsewhere in the house have architrave surrounds and on the first story the architrave surrounds are topped by molded cornice
lintels. 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 with mansard roof was built by L.G. Field in the late 1860’s. He purchased the lot in 1867 from Caroline Lawrence, widow
of William Lawrence, whose 1859 Italianate house still stands to the north. The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported: ‘L.G. Field has purchased a building lot, Phillips Place, from Mrs.
William Lawrence, and will build a $10,000 house on it.’ The substantial dwelling and land were sold in 1870 for $8500. Phillips Place and its extension, Pomeroy Terrace, were developed
as a residential area in the later nineteenth century.” 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, 1169.46, 1169.43, 1106.393, 994.342, 873.138, 596.246, 511.495, 337.449, 300.361, 254.317
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sheet 2 NTH.2103 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.