3-5 Berkshire Terrace
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FORM B − BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Topographic or Assessor's Map
Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: PVPC
Date (month / year): 10/2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
23B-067 Easthampton NTH.240
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 3-5 Berkshire Terrace
Historic Name: Horace and Julia Packard House
Uses: Present: two-family house
Original: single-family house
Date of Construction: 1870-1873
Source: Registry of Deeds and atlas
Style/Form: gable-and-wing form
Architect/Builder: Horace Packard, builder, attr.
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: shingles
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Shingle sided, ca. 1940
Condition: fair
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.403 acres
Setting: This house is on a corner lot on a terrace that
slopes precipitously down to the east. Shrubbery is
overgrown and hides the house.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [3-5 Berkshire Terrace]
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This is a modest gable-and-wing form house that may have more stylistic detailing in the past, but which is no longer present.
The front-gable section of the house (#3) is two-and-a-half stories in height, and the wing (#5), under a side-gable roof is one-
and-a-half stories in height. The front-gable section is three bays wide and four bays long and its windows contain 2/2 sash.
The wing is two bays long and one deep. Uniting the two sections is a one-story porch on fluted posts that wraps from the west,
to south and across the west side of the wing. The main block has two entries, one on the street or west façade and one on the
south elevation. Shingle siding covers what may have been a more elaborate surround on the west, but the south opening is
more prominent with a door flanked by windows as sidelights. The door surround of the wing (#5) is a thin architrave surround
and two through-cornice dormers rise above the level of the eaves.
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, “In 1870 Horace and Julia Packard bought lots no. 1 and 2 on Baldwin and Goodwin’s subdivision
plan for land between South Main Street and Main Street, as bounded on the east by the terrace drop-off for Broughton’s Brook.
The Packards paid $450 for the two lots, and as Mr. Packard was a carpenter, he probably built the house himself. “
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 FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [3-5 Berkshire Terrace]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
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