Bridge Street 390.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-61 Easthampton NTH.365 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 390 Bridge Street Historic Name: Marie
N. Tessier House Uses: Present: two-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1911-1920 Source: Registry of Deeds, Book 669 Page 145 Style/Form: Craftsman bungalow
Architect/Builder: Mr. Tessier, attr. Exterior Material: Foundation: fieldstone Wall/Trim: stucco, fieldstone, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major
Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.13 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot and faces east towards the Connecticut River on a
busy thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [390 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.365 _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. The Tessier House is one of the finest Craftsman style bungalows in Northampton. It is a one-and-a-half
story house under a hipped roof with a front, shed-roof dormer, and hipped roof dormers on north, south and west. The roof of the house extends to create a three-sided porch roof on
the east façade with exposed rafters. The porch roof rests on battered posts above solid fieldstone porch walls. The house is stucco sided with fieldstone foundations and shingled dormers.
There is an integral garage of one bay at the southwest corner of the house and it has an entry portico resting on braces above its garage door. A similar portico is located on a secondary
entry of the south elevation of the house. Window surrounds on the house are molded but have splayed lintels. There is a center Craftsman style door with three vertical panels beneath
a multi-light glass window. The door is flanked by two, triple-window compositions with 4/1, 8/1 and 4/1 sashes. 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 1975, “This bungalow was
built on Bridge Street after 1910, probably about 1920. An earlier map of 1900 shows a subdivision on upper Bridge Street. In 1911 Marie Tessier purchased the tract for $800; buildings
are mentioned but would not have included the bungalow. According to the present owners the bungalow was built in 1911 by Mr. Tessier, who was a cabinetmaker and did both the interiors
and exterior.” 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.