Bridge Street 109.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):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-240 Easthampton NTH.2118 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 109 Bridge Street Historic Name:
Seth Hunt House Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1875 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: metal standing seam Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | |
Date Acreage: 0.223 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house that is profiled against its background by its elevation on the lot. Near the curve in its street, the house is visually
very prominent.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [109 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2118 _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 Seth Hunt-Mary Ann Cochran House is a late Italianate style house that is more lively in its
design than the other Italianate houses on Bridge Street, whether they were built originally in the style or were later altered to the style. This quality is due to the fact that the
two story house under a flat roof has an L-shaped plan in the angle of which is a three-story square tower giving the house variety in plan and elevation. The projecting section of the
house [the gable equivalent in the gable-and-wing form] is one bay wide and three bays deep and has a three-sided bay window centered on its first floor and a single window above with
a widely projecting lintel cornice. Beneath the widely projecting eaves is a frieze with an Italianate attic metal grille. Sash in windows is 2/2. The main entry is in the corner tower
and is reached through a wrap-around porch that extends across the west and south sides of the tower. It has a copper standing seam roof that is supported on chamfered posts with high
impost blocks and scroll-cut railings. The front door surround has a projecting cornice and arched sidelights. The corner tower has round windows with scroll work surrounds and the wing
has an arched window at the second floor and a three-sided bay window on the south. 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. This house does not appear on the atlas of 1873, so it is dated ca. 1875.
It was built by Seth Hunt who lived in the Gothic Revival style house to the north of this house at 115 Bridge Street. In 1878 he built this house next to his house, and then sold it
on a quarter acre of land to Mary Ann Cochran, previously of Springfield, Massachusetts, for six thousand dollars. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Registry of Deeds, Book 321, Page 441
Book 339, Page 372. Book 494, Page 255, Book 967, Pages 280 and 279, Book 1073, Page 397. Book 2227, Page 101, 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 Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [109 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2118 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 Hunt-Cochran 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.