Bridge Street 274.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-64 Easthampton NTH.387 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 274 Bridge Street Historic Name: Daniel
Martin House Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: atlases and directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Chester White, attr. Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.132 acres Setting: Set close to Bridge Street in alignment with its neighbors. This is a mainly residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] 274 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.387 ___ 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 Martin House is a rather severe version of the Colonial Revival style. It is one of several
Colonial Revival style houses with minimal ornament in the neighborhood and closely resembles the house at 222 Bridge Street built by Chester White. It is two-and-a-half stories in height
under a pyramidal hipped roof. It is three bays wide and three bays deep for a square plan. Two of the bays of the east façade project as a shallow pavilion and the third bay contains
a large, single-glazed window at the first floor level. There is an oriel window on the south elevation and it has a row of brackets at its eaves and a shingled lower surface. A one-story
porch crosses two of the façade bays. It has Italianate style posts and railings of geometric bracing and is the most ornamental feature of the house. On the roof are unusual glazed,
triangular dormers that have brackets at their sill level. These dormers as well as the shallow pavilion of the façade are repeated at 222 Bridge Street. Cornerboards on the house are
relatively thin and the frieze beneath the eaves is ornamented with a filet molding. 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, “The first known owner was Daniel Martin, a policeman.”
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.