Bridge Street 354.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 25A-95 Easthampton NTH.369 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 354 Bridge Street Historic Name: Edwin
Clark House Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1850 Source: map of 1830 and atlas of 1860 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: garage Major Alterations (with dates): Vinyl siding and vinyl replacement
windows, ca. 1990. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.34 acres Setting: Setting: House faces east on a large corner lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [354 Bridge Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.369 ___ 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 Clark House is a two-and-a-half story, front-gabled house whose eaves make full returns to
form a pediment. An arched Italianate style window is centered in the pediment. The vinyl-sided house is three bays wide and the equivalent of five bays deep. It has a shed roof portico
on the east façade resting on altered posts, but respondent pilasters remain at each side of the entry entry from the original door surround. They have capitals and high Italianate style
plinths. There is one interior chimney on the roof and there is a one-story wing on the north elevation. Sash in the house is 1/1 vinyl replacement. The use of vinyl siding and replacement
windows has obscured historical details on the house. 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 early 19th century dwelling is located on Bridge Street about a mile east
of the center of town on the way to the Connecticut River bridge. The available 19th century maps and atlases show this house belonging to Edwin Clark, a farmer. The Clark family was
a prominent, early Northampton family.” 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.