Bridge Street 186.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 25C-159 Easthampton NTH.396 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 186 Bridge Street Historic Name: Frank
W. Twiss House Uses: Present: single-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1913 Source: carriage house inscription; directories Style/Form: Colonial
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick, wood shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.285 acres Setting: This house is located on the north side of the Bridge Street Cemetery and is on a busy thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [186 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.396 _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 a fine example of a Colonial Revival foursquare and is among the best-maintained versions
of the style in Northampton. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a pyramidal hipped roof with a tall chimney at its center ridge. The roof is made more complex by a centered, hipped
roof dormer and there transverse gable bays on north and south. The first story of the house is brick and the second is wood shingle-sided. Typical of the Colonial Revival style, there
is a shallow jetty between stories. The house is only two bays wide, but its proportions are large. A full-width porch crosses the east façade. It is supported on columns and has respondent
pilasters on the house façade. A small pediment marks the location of the entry stairs to the porch and a fine geometric railing runs between the columns. At the first floor level, window
sills and lintels are brownstone and sash is 6/2. There is diamond pane sash in the dormer windows, a common Colonial Revival feature. 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 a 1980 Form B,
“The carriage house cupola has a “1913” inscribed on it, and this is probably the date of the house also. The 1895 atlas shows this lot as being part of the much larger farm next door
at 188 Bridge Street. The atlas also shows a barn on the site of the present barn to this house so possibly the 1913 refers to the date the barn was stuccoed and changed hands.” 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. Northampton Directory: 1905, 1915, and 1917 Hampshire County Registry of Deeds, Book 5890, Page
280, Book 1706, Page 103, Book 1426, Page 459, Book 890, Page 49 after that title can be found in the Registry of Probate under the will of one Marion E. Twiss sometime between 1933
and 1913.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [186 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.396 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 primarily 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.