Phillips Place 25.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 32A-198 Easthampton NTH.2086 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 25 Phillips Place Historic Name:
Erastus Slate House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1848-1854 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: flushboard Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Porch posts replaced; some windows
replaced, post-1980. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.358 acres Setting: This is a north-facing house on a short residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [25 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2086 _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. This is a two-and-a-half story Italianate style house whose exterior is sided in flushboard to
emulate the stone of an Italian villa. The house has a front-gabled roof whose eaves make full returns to form a pediment and wide cornerboards rise to support a narrow architrave and
wide frieze that are separated by a molded fillet. The north façade of the house is three bays wide with a sidehall entry beneath a pedimented porch on posts. These architectural features
alone would make the house Greek Revival in style, but first floor windows on the north façade are full-length, which, together with the flushboard siding, shift the stylistic balance
of the house to Italianate. Windows elsewhere in the house have been replaced with 1/1 sash where 6/6 would have been more common historically. The porch posts replace earlier Italianate
style posts with filigree work. At the time the 1980 survey form was completed the house was sided in asbestos or asphalt and it has since been carefully restored to its original appearance.
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: “Phillips Place was opened in 1847 on land of the Clarke family. Edward Clarke began selling lots at the same time and sold lot 17 to Erastus
Slate in October 1848. The Slate Family owned this residence through most of the 19th century. The street was first opened off of Hawley Street and with the opening of Pomeroy Terrace
off of Bridge Street, a new residential area was created, which quickly became the fashionable residential area of town.” 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. 125-P. 374, 120-483
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [25 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2086 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 Slate 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. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting,
design and materials.