Bridge Street 239.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-242 Easthampton NTH.415 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 239 Bridge Street Historic Name: Joseph
Murray House Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1895 Source: atlas of 1895 Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards and shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | |
Date Acreage: 0.165 acres Setting: House overlooks the Connecticut River flood plains on the east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [239 Bridge Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.415 ___ 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 Joseph Murray house is a two-and-a-half story house under a slate-covered, front-gable roof
with a transverse gable on the north and a one-story, three-sided bay window on the south elevation. The house is only two bays wide and is preceded by a wrap around porch on heavy turned
supports. The porch has a curved corner and a spindled frieze. Adjacent to the entry is a large, fixed-light window, a feature that was popular in Northampton at the turn-of-the-century.
The clapboard and shingle-sided house is set on a hillside so its basement is exposed on the east. The main block is two bays deep and there is a two-and-a-half story ell at the rear.
The house has a center chimney. The gable ends of the house have been shingle sided to highlight the surface of the building. The house represents the Queen Anne style as it was applied
to a large building modestly. 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, “This house appears first on the atlas of 1895. It is shown as the house of Joseph Murray a mason and
building mover and stylistically seems to date from this time.” 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [239 Bridge Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.415