Bridge Road 34.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: PVPC Date (month /year): 3/22/10 Assessor’s Number
USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 16B-001-044 Easthampton NTH.49 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 34 Bridge Road Historic Name: Seth Warner Homestead Uses: Present:
single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1819 Source: History of Florence, Mass., Charles Sheffeld (ed.). Style/Form: Federal Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): vinyl sided and windows replaced, ca.
2000 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 24 acres Setting: South-facing house is set set close to the road behind a wooden fence
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [34 BRIDGE ROAD ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.49 ___ 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 Seth Warner House is a two-and-a-half story house under a side-gable roof. It has one interior
chimney that is off-center and behind the ridge pole. The house is five bays wide and one bay deep and there is a shed-roofed ell on the north elevation. Attached to the ell on the east
is a one-and-a-half story wing with a recessed porch, followed by a one-story equipment shed two bays bays wide, and an attached eaves-front carriage barn for a long rectangular plan.
While the wing is vinyl sided, the shed and carriage barn are clapboard and vertical wood sided. The house is also vinyl-sided so many of its details are no longer visible but it is
late Federal in style with long first floor windows on the façade that now contain 12/12 replacement vinyl sash. Second floor windows have 6/6 replacement windows. The house has an Italianate
style, flat-roofed portico at its center entry. It rests on posts with caps and bases and Chippendale pattern railings fill each side opening. It was probably added to the house ca.
1850-70. There is no visible door surround. 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 the Form B of 1976, “The Seth Warner House, built in 1819 is perhaps the most salient edifice in the Florence community,
today. It was Joseph Warner who built the first house in Florence in 1778, thus making the Warners Florence’s “first family”. Shortly thereafter Solomon Warner was to establish a tavern
under his name that was on the stage route to Williamsburg and proved to be a noteworthy inn for the area. It is important to note that the family owned most of the area most charmingly
known as Bear Hill, which was the site of the Warner School District. The Warner family is still a rather cohesive and prominent faction in Florence today. They have retained ownership
of the Seth Warner homestead; a period that spans one hundred and sixty years. “ 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.