North Farms Road 372.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, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 7-15 Easthampton NTH.6 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) North Farms Address: 372 North Farms Road Historic
Name: Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: late 19th century Source: visual evidence Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: parged brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2000
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.3 acres Setting: This house sits on a rise in the landscape and faces east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [372 NORTH FARMS ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.6 ___ 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. This is a one-and-a-half story house with a front-gable roof with a center chimney and a cross-gable
on the south elevation. It has a long ell on the west. The clapboard-sided house is three bays wide with a side hall entry and a Queen Anne style porch that crosses its east façade and
wraps around to the south elevation. The porch has ¾ length turned posts that rest on fieldstone fieldstone piers and arrow-shaped scroll-cut brackets at its eaves. Adjacent to the south
porch is a one-story angled bay window. The ell originally had a side porch on the south that has been enclosed as a one-story section. The ell of one-and-a-half stories has a cross-gable
on its south elevation. Attached to the ell on its west elevation is a one-story secondary ell. Window surrounds and the main door surround are flat stock and without trim. Windows are
1/1. 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 1980: “It is possible that this is a remodeled house of earlier vintage, as the property was originally in the hands of the Bridgeman family,
the first settlers of the North Farms area. Noah Bridgeman was voted a tract of land on ‘Horse Mountain’ by the town in 1759. The intent was to encourage settlement of outlying areas,
as the threat of Indian attack disappeared.” 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 618-P. 26, 152-310, 76-496, 58-60