Phillips Place 59.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.2090 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 59 Phillips Place Historic Name: Mrs.
O. S. Clark House Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1848-1850 Source: Registry of Deeds 119.201 Style/Form: Greek Revival/Italianate
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, flushboard Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows replaced, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.354 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot at the intersection of two residential streets.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [59 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2090 _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 Greek Revival style house whose builder showed awareness of the
Italianate style by the use of an arched window in the flushboarded tympanum of its front-gabled roof. The north façade of the house is three bays wide and it has a sidehall entry. A
hipped roof porch crosses the north façade and fluted Doric columns support a full entablature of architrave, frieze and cornice. Windows in the house have been replaced with 1/1 sash.
The house is three bays deep and there is an angled bay window on the east elevation, a second Italianate style feature. A one-and-a-half story ell extends to the south. It is four bays
long, extending the length of the house considerably. 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 Greek Revival style residence was built in Phillips Place shortly after the
street was opened in 1847. Phillips Place was created in 1847 on land of the Clarke family and quickly became the fashionable residential area in the town. The area was quickly populated
by industrialists and merchants and the various Victorian residences have been well preserved over the years.” The 1873 map identification of the owners of this house is illegible and
a check of the 1870 census for the neighboring houses did not reveal a name that appears to match. However, by 1884 the house was in the ownership of the Hampden County bank and in 1895
it was 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.2090 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 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.