Phillips Place 59.1.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-202 Easthampton NTH.2091 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 59.1 Phillips Place Historic Name:
Mrs. O. S. Clark Outbuilding Uses: Present: Residence Original: Undesignated outbuilding Date of Construction: 1873-1884 Source: Atlas of Northampton Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Converted to residential use, ca. 1900.
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.354 acres Setting: This building faces faces east towards Pomeroy Terrace and is set back from both Pomeroy and Phillips Place
in a residential neighborhood.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [59 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2091 __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-story Italianate style building under a flat roof with wide eaves overhangs. Centered
on the roof is a glazed belvedere, a feature that is found on several Italianate houses in the neighborhood, and one that was introduced in New England during the Italianate period.
The building is two bays wide and two bays deep for a square plan. Windows are replacement 1/1 and have simple flat surrounds. Across the east façade is a full-width, hipped roof porch
that is Colonial Revival in style being supported on four Doric columns. It was probably added at the time the outbuilding was converted to residential use. 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 1976: “This small house off Pomeroy Terrace first served as an outbuilding for 59 Phillips Place.” The map of 1873 is illegible for this house, but in 1884 it is labeled as
a Hampden County Bank Property and in 1895 the house and its outbuilding were owned by Mrs. O. S. Clark. 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: 119.201
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [59 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2091 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 Clark House Outbuilding that has been converted to a 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, as it represents one of the
last few outbuildings remaining in the district. Original residents here were merchants, retired 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.
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sheet 3 NTH.2091