North Farms Road 373.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 07-060 Easthampton NTH.8 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) North Farms Address: 373 North Farms Road Historic
Name: Bridgeman House Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1830 Source: map of 1831 Style/Form: Cape Cod form Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates): Sided and windows replaced
ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.748 acres Setting: This house is in a mixed farm/suburban house neighborhood. It is set on a rise in the landscape and
is south facing.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [373 North Farms Road] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.8 ___ 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 Cape Cod form house with a center chimney on a side-gable roof.
It is five bays wide and two bays deep and has an added portico on its south façade. There is a one-story wing on the east that is three bays long. The house is vinyl-sided and has all
vinyl replacement windows, so much of its character is lost or obscured beneath the siding. From its form, however, it is clear that this house was not the original Bridgeman House,
but would have been constructed at a later date. Its carriage barn remains though a large gambrel-roofed barn present in 1980 has been lost. This was a farm that was slowly whittled
away as suburban development spread in Northampton. 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, “North Farms is located about a mile and a half north of the village of Florence
on the road to Whately. Originally known as Horse Mountain, this section is some four miles from the enter of Northampton and is located between 250 and 400 feet of elevation on the
southeastern slopes of Horse Mountain, a long, north-south running mountain located mostly in Hatfield. About 1759, the town voted Noah Bridgeman a tract of land in this area. This settlement,
and the one at what is now known as Florence, were the earliest out-districts, which are still within the Northampton of today. No settlement had occurred prior to this because of Indian
troubles; however, the end of the French and Indian wars eliminated the problem within the township. Noah Bridgeman and his son, also named Noah, were the first settlers of this area,
establishing their homestead here at the time of their grant. The homestead remained in the Bridgeman family until 1860.” On the map of 1831 this house appears to be owned by S. Bridgeman.
It has been suggested that William Lloyd Garrison may have stayed at this house at the time of the Civil War. Further research is needed. 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 Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry
F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.