Pomeroy Terrace 67.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-215 Easthampton NTH.2100 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 67 Pomeroy Terrace Historic Name: Sarah
Butler House Uses: Present: Institutional offices Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1900 Source: visual evidence Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Benjamin Hammett Seabury Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: aluminum Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding applied
and windows replaced, ca. 1970-90. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.161 acres Setting: This building occupies a corner lot on a largely residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [67 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2100 ___ 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 Butler House is a Colonial Revival style house that would originally have had a fine exterior
siding in clapboards and shingles that now are covered with aluminum siding. This is a two-and-a-half story building under a gambrel roof with a broad jetty between first and second
stories and a centered, cross-gable dormer on its east façade with a gambrel roof. Flanking the center dormer are two, shed roofed dormers and across the west side of the roof is a single,
shed roof dormer that effectively raises the rear elevation by one-half a story. The east façade of the house is three bays wide and has a center porch on ¾ length Doric columns above
a solid railing. On the north end of the façade is an angled bay at first story level. Windows in the house have all been replaced causing a further loss of architectural character.
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 cottage on Pomeroy Terrace was built about 1900 for Sarah Butler, whose family owned a homestead on Hawley Street and the land to the
rear which became Butler Place in 1892. It is probably that Sarah Butler commissioned the building of this cottage when the homestead was sold around the turn of the century. The cottage,
built in an area of architecturally fine mid-19th century residences, was designed by Springfield architect B.H. Seabury. Seabury graduated from MIT in 1879 and same to Springfield in
1881 after having worked on the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Originally in the firm of Richmond & Seabury, Seabury worked alone between 1889 and the early 1900’s when his son
Harry M. Seabury joined him. Two commercial blocks in Northampton, the Hammond and Dewey Blocks, were also designed by Seabury.” The use of the term “cottage” is misleading, as this
is a substantial house. 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.