Bridge Street 115.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-241 Easthampton NTH.2119 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 115 Bridge Street Historic Name:
Seth Hunt House Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1859 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 8, 1859. Style/Form: Gothic
Revival/Italianate Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt, architect Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): 2005-2006 ell additions on east elevation. Condition: good Moved: no | | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 2.99 acres Setting: House faces southwest behind a
wrought iron fence. Landscape is designed with perennial flower beds and shrubbery.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [115 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2119 _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. Previously considered a Gothic Revival style house for its steeply pitched roofs, the Hunt House
may be seen as Gothic Revival transitional to the Italianate style. It is a two-and-a-half story house that is L-shaped in plan, and like its neighbor at 109 Bridge Street that dates
about 15 years later and is fully Italianate, it places an entry in the angle of the two wings. Rather than a square tower as at 109, however, William Fenno Pratt, the architect, placed
a front-gabled pavilion of two stories into the angle and skirted it with a three-sided open porch on Italianate chamfered posts with a pediment over the entry stairs. The main entry
door is round arched. The house has much of the visual interest of the two styles with a patterned slate roof that has a tall chimney in the wing and a shingled cupola at the crossing
of the two ridge poles. There is a three sided bay window on the south elevation of the wing and pairs of Italianate arched windows in both ends of the two building sections at the second
floor level. There is a wing on the north elevation of one-and-a-half stories. Three bays long, it has through-cornice dormers with Gothic Revival style lancet windows and a secondary
entrance with a pointed arch portico. There are three chimneys and two of them are double stacks. There is a two-story, recently added ell on the west that includes a three-story shingled
tower. . Clearly Pratt was working out the elements of design between two current styles of architecture, and the result is a unique building. 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. According to
the Form B of 1975, “This Gothic Revival style house was built in 1859 for Seth Hunt, Treasurer and Clerk of the Connecticut River Railroad. It was designed by Northampton architect
William Fenno Pratt. Hunt had purchased a three acre tract of land ‘with buildings thereon’ from J. Stebbins Lathrop in 1858 for $2,900. In 1875 Hunt took out a mortgage on the three
acre tract.” He later repurchased a ¼ acre section and built a house upon it that he then sold to Mary Ann Cochran in 1878. The ¼ acre and the house that he sold were at 109 Bridge Street.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Registry of Deeds, book 180, page 334; book 180 page 293; Book 321 Page 441; Book 336 page 366; Book 339 page 372; Book 472 Page 349; Book 488 page 153;
Book 491 page 325; Book 600 page 53; Book 777 page 513; Book 777 page 105. 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. Annual Reports Connecticut Valley Railroad Company 1870
to 1883.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [115 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2119 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, railroad owners
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 is a fine example of Pratt’s work in the Gothic Revival style.
This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.