Elm Street 142.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 31B-244 Easthampton NTH.699 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 142 Elm Street Historic Name: C. B.
Ferry House Uses: Present: Residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1874 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, 11/17/74 Style/Form: Stick Style Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards and vertical board siding Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.257 acres Setting: This house is in a row of similarly similarly styled and dated 19th century houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [142 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.700 ___ 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 Ferry House is very close in design as a Stick Style building to the house next door east pm
Elm Street. It is also a two-and-a-half story house with a very steeply pitched side-gable roof, but rather than one central chimney, this house has two small chimneys set close to the
center of the roof. It has a similar elevation with a transverse gable bay centered on the north façade façade and resting on the roof of a three-sided porch. The exterior of the house
is clapboard-sided with picket fence siding in all the gable ends that are also embellished with King Post trusses. Other elements that defined the style are the stringcourses, beltcourses
and paneling that intended to suggest on the exterior of the building the structural members of plates, sills and braces that made up its interior. Unadorned wide eaves are supported
at their corners by carved consoles. Windows have drip mold lintels, borrowed from the Gothic Revival style, and 2/2 sash. 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 Form B of 1975: “Built on the Paradise
tract in 1874, this cottage on Elm Street is one of 5 built bordering Paradise Pond in the mid-nineteenth century. The Gazette in November 1874 noted, ‘J. C. Ward is about to erect a
house on his Paradise lot fronting on Elm Street and adjoining the house of Moses Brew(st)er. The house is designed for the use of Rev. Mr. Ferry, Unitarian pastor. The house will be
of the cottage style, similar to, but larger than, the Brewer House.’ (The Brewer cottage to the east was built for Ward in 1865—71.). It seems unlikely that W. F. Pratt designed this
cottage and its neighbor. While the Gazette does make mention of Pratt’s designing a cottage for L. C. Ward, that cottage probably stood on Paradise Road.” This house was for many years
the residence of Smith College Professor Frank H. Ellis and his wife Constance Ellis. 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. 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.
Registry of Deeds, 228.385; 283.385, 301.317