Pomeroy Terrace 40.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-232 Easthampton NTH.2110 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 40 Pomeroy Terrace Historic Name: M.
M. French Carriage Barn Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Carriage Barn Date of Construction: 1879-1884 Source: 1873 Beers Atlas & 1884 Walkers Atlas Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: possibly William Pratt, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: wood shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major
Alterations (with dates): Fenestration altered, ca. 1990. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | | Date Acreage: 4.214 acres Setting: This is a north-facing building that is set back
from the street out of alignment with the neighboring houses.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [40 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2110 _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 wood shingle-sided carriage barn converted to a house. It is two-and-a-half stories in
height under a bracketed side-gable roof and has a one-and-a-half story ell on the south for a T-shaped plan. Centered on its slate roof is an Italianate, flat roofed cupola/ventilator
that has been sided over. The north façade is three bays wide with a center entrance and a staircase has been built to provide a front residential entry to the building on the north
façade. The west is three bays deep and its center bay at the second story is a large loading dock opening that has been enclosed. Windows at the second story were later additions. The
ell is two bays long and there is a pedestrian entry on its west elevation. 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 fine barn appears on the property of M.M. French in the 1884
Walkers Atlas. It closely resembles a barn described as being built for E.E. Wakefield (who owned the property to the south on Phillips Place), ‘an elegant barn…3 stories in the rear,
and two in front.’ It is possible that the structure was moved from the Wakefield property to the French property prior to 1884.” As the description of this carriage barn does not match
its current number of stories, there is not strong evidence for being a moved barn. 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] [40 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.2110 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. This former carriage barn 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. It represents one of the few remaining outbuildings that at one
time accompanied each grand house. 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. Pratt is attributed as architect to this building. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.