Bridge Street 212.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-124 Easthampton NTH.392 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 212 Bridge Street Historic Name: Theodore
Baggs House Uses: Present: two-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: 1860-1873 Source: map and atlas Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added ca. 1960. Porch added and windows
altered ca. 1910. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.165 acres Setting: This house is set on a corner lot behind a tall hedge. It is east-facing.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [212 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.392 ___ 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 good example of an Italianate villa style house with its low hipped roof and shallow
transverse gables on the east and south. A typically wide eaves overhang is ornamented with paired brackets set on a wide frieze, and at each shallow gable end is a round attic-level
opening. The two-story building is three bays wide and three bays deep and it has a two-story ell on the rear or west elevation and a one-story, three-sided bay window on its south elevation.
A Colonial Revival style, stacked porch on Doric columns crosses the east façade. It is likely to have been an alteration of later date that accompanied a change in fenestration. Large,
single glazed windows on the east façade at first and second floors have wide cornice lintels that are more consistent with the Colonial Revival style than the Italianate. The porch
has a pedimented entry then is stacked on the second floor with a one bay wide section that is also supported on Doric columns. The main entry is in a one-story pavilion and has a broad
trabeated surround with broad sidelights. 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 1980, “This house was probably built during the late 1860s for Theodore Baggs, a local farmer. The
1873 atlas shows this house on a lot stretching from Bridge Street northerly almost 1000’ to North Street. This was one of three such homesteads on the north side of Bridge Street between
the cemetery and Grant Avenue. Not until the turn of the century were these homesteads subdivided for residential lots. Elizabeth Street, laid out in 1908 runs through the middle of
the original Baggs lot.” 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 Directories of 1885-86; 1873-74; 1868-69. Hampshire
County Registry of Deeds, Book 5945, Page 02, Book 3320, Page 182, (Also see Hampshire County Probate Docket Docket # 48958 and Release of Estate Tax Book 2202, Page 241) Book 1242,
Page 125, Book 1032, Page 492, Book 992, Page 288, Book, 1025, Page 115 (Sale of previously associated strip of land in 1947) Book of Plans Book 31, Page 47 (Lot as it was in 1944 when
owned by William A Cooney) (Lot is originally found as Part of a series of Plans filed in Book 632 Pages 270 and 271 on July 24,1908 owned by a Mrs. H.T. Moseley) Hampshire County Registry
of Probate, Probate Box 609, Folio Estate of William A Cooney,