South Street 179.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: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): April 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38B-80 Easthampton NTH.1008 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 179 South Street Historic
Name: Ferry House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1704 Source: Forbes library archives Style/Form: First Period /Georgian
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Stucco over fieldstone Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): New windows,
late 2000s Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 3.7 acres Setting: House sits in a a residential neighborhood of former single family homes that have been converted
to buildings with two or more residential units.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [179 SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.1008 _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 oldest surviving houses in Northampton. The Ferry House is a two story side
gabled home with clapboard siding. It is three bays wide and one bay deep. This house exhibits features of First Period construction although it was mostly likely constructed during
the Georgian Period. First Period residences typically had a garrison overhang between the first and second stories (and sometimes between the second and attic stories), steeply pitched
gable-end roofs with little to no eaves, and large central chimneys that were often in clustered shapes. They also sat on a low fieldstone foundations. This house has all of these features.
The home’s original front entrance has been replaced since the home was first inventoried in 1970, although the current replacement is very comparable to the original door surround.
Windows on the home were replaced in the late 2000s and are now six over six sash. There is a two story rear ell followed by a one story addition. 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
1970: “This house was built in 1704. Purchased from the builder Preserved Clapp and given to Josiah Clark by his father in 1744. After three generations of occupancy by the Clark family,
it was inhabited by three generations of Ferrys—one of the Clark daughters married a Ferry. The present owner, Mr. King, is a nephew of a Ferry. So the house has continued in the same
family without having been sold for over 200 years. Originally a large farm of about 1000 acres went with the house, and cattle were driven to Boston. When built, there was no other
house on this side of Mill River, and the old Springfield Road went down what is now Fort Street.” 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.