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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 32A-178 Easthampton NTH.2073 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 82 Bridge Street Historic Name: George Sergeant House Uses: Present: nine-unit house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1820; remodeled 1869 Source: Hampshire Gazette, March 30, 1869 Style/Form: Greek Revival altered to Italianate Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt, architect 1869 Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: aluminum Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Altered to Italianate style in 1869. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.48 acres Setting: This is a south-facing house, set close to the street behind a privet hedge. Two large fir trees ornament the front yard space. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON [82 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2073 __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. Like its neighbor at 81 Bridge Street, the Lyman house was altered from an earlier style – in this case Greek Revival -to an Italianate style, in the 1860s, to bring it up to date with its more recent Italianate style neighbors at 74 and 56 Bridge Street. Most of the stylistic alterations at this house were focused on an entry porch. The house is two-and-a-half stories under a side-gable roof. It is five bays wide, three bays deep and sits on high brick foundations. Remaining from its Greek Revival origins are the wide architrave with entablature and frieze at the eaves, and returns in the gable ends. The house has two interior chimneys. Windows have architrave surrounds and 2/1 sash that would have been a later alteration from 6/6 sash. To make the house Italianate in style, the architect added a two-story portico one-bay wide that is topped by a pediment. The portico is supported at both stories by piers on plinths, and between doubled corner piers are arched openings. At the first floor level the entry is composed of a double leaf door with a transom light above it; at the second floor entry the double leaf door is surmounted by an arched fanlight of two lights. 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. The earliest earliest known owner of this house was Horace Lyman who was here in 1825 according to an early deed, (“The Historical Catalogue Northampton First Church from 1661 to 1891” confirms a man of this name indeed did live on Bridge Street and was the father of “the late General Luke Lyman” who served in the Civil War,) at which time he sold the house to Asahel Abell. After Horace Lyman the house changed hands four times including into the hands of a Moses Clark. In 1863 the Sergeant family had acquired it. 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 [82 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2073 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Lyman House would contribute to a potential Pomeroy Terrace historic district that developed south and east of the Bridge Street Cemetery from the second third of the 19th century as Northampton’s finest residential district. Original residents here were merchants, retired farmers, lawyers, and other professions. As the century progressed the adjacent streets were laid out for the growing middle class with railroad personnel joining clerks, teachers, and others. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the fine examples of the 19th century architectural styles from the Greek and Gothic Revivals, Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. The district includes significant examples of the work of Northampton architect William Fenno Pratt. The Lyman House is one of at least three houses in the district that Pratt altered to a new level of design and style. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.