Pomeroy Terrace 37.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-189 Easthampton NTH.2078 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 37 Pomeroy Terrace Historic Name: Simon
and Ann Dickinson House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1870 Source: Atlas and Map Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, flushboard Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.126 acre Setting: This is an east-facing house on a shady residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [37 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2078 __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. The Dickinson House is a two-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof that has wide, braced
eaves. There is a cross-gabled wing on the south and a two-and-half story ell on the west for a T-shaped plan. In the angle between the main block and the south wing is a one-story section
one bay wide and two bays deep. A wraparound porch crosses this section and the east façade and the main entry is in the one-story section while the east façade of the main block is
only one bay wide. This is a highly unusual plan and elevation and perhaps unique in Northampton. The wing has a paired sash window in the second story and a rectangular bay window at
the first story while the main block on the east has an angled bay on the first story and a paired sash window on the second. Window sash is 2/2. Windows and the main door entry have
Italianate pedimented lintels. The west ell has a two-story porch on posts on its south elevation. The house is clapboard sided up to the area of the frieze beneath the eaves and the
frieze is flushboard sided. The porch has turned posts and square baluster railings. This is a fine example of the Italianate style and it is well-maintained. 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, “This L-shaped house was built between 1860 and 1873”. In 1873 Pomeroy Terrace was called Phillips Place and this house was one of three on the west side of the street.
It was labeled as “Dickinson” and in 1884 it was S. Dickinson, seemingly Simon Dickinson who was 85 and retired and living with his wife Martha, daughter and his sister. By 1895 Phillips
Place had become Pomeroy Terrace and this house was owned by William Sterling. William Sterling in 1900 was living in the house and practicing the law as a lawyer. He had two Irish immigrant
servants with him. 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [37 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2078 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 Dickinson 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.