Phillips Place 29.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):
May, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-199 Easthampton NTH.2087 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 29 Phillips Place Historic Name: J.M.
Turner House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1865 Source: Registry of Deeds 289.405 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.36 acres Setting: This house faces north on a short, residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [29 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2087 __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 later version of the Italianate style than its neighbors at 22 and 24 Phillips Place
so it does not try to imitate a palazzo or villa with a flat roof and flushboard siding. Rather, it is a two-and-a-half story, clapboard-sided house under a front-gabled roof with a
cross-gable wing on the east. Connecting the two sections of the house is a wraparound porch supported on Italianate chamfered posts. One section of the porch has a railing with turned
balusters, but most of the porch is without railings, which was a common practice for Italianate houses. The wide eaves overhangs of the roof are supported on brackets and first floor
windows, although not full-length, are elongated. The entry of the three bay façade has a double-leaf door. Windows have shed roof lintels and are paired in the wing’s east elevation,
as was often the practice in Italianate style houses. 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: “This bracketed style house was built in Phillips Place about 1865. In 1865, A.J.
Lincoln sold to Turner, for $2000, lot #16 in Phillips Place. The lot had not been built on as the result of a provision in a previous deed, 149.461.” BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Beers, F. W. County Atlas 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, Hampshire County: 289.405, 226.23, 149.461
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [29 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2087 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 Turner 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.