149 Bridge Street
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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: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32A-245 Easthampton NTH.2122
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 149 Bridge Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: single-family residence
Original: single-family residence
Date of Construction: ca. 1910
Source: atlas and directory
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Chester White, Builder, Northampton
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Brick commercial building at rear.
Major Alterations (with dates):
Vinyl siding and vinyl replacement windows added ca. 2005.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.459 acres
Setting: Set at the edge of a large open space, this house
is west-facing and is placed close to the street on an
eastward-sloping lot.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [149 BRIDGE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
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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 one of several houses on Bridge Street that has a very modest main block, but which takes on a Queen Anne stylistic
presence by a corner tower. The house is two-and-a-half stories in height and square in plan with the corner tower inset into the
angle between a front-gabled section and a transverse gable bay. To add complexity to the plan, there is a rear one-and-a-half
story ell with an exposed basement on the east. The front-gabled section of the house and the tower are linked by a porch that
traverses from the west façade around to the south. The hipped roof porch is a combination of the Colonial Revival style and the
Queen Anne style, which is not unusual for the ca. 1910 date of the house: Colonial Revival Doric columns with an unusual
Queen Anne style bracketed frieze ornament. Queen Anne in style, as well, is the four-sided roof of the tower with an ogee
profile. On the north and west faces of the tower roof are triangular windows in triangular surrounds. This idiosyncratic motif is
repeated on the south roof of the house with a triangular dormer with low side walls. Queen Anne multi-paned stair windows are
located at the first and second floors of the tower.
There is a one-story brick commercial building behind the house on the east. It has a shed roof.
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 previous Form B prepared in 1980, “This house was built on part of the Josiah Parsons homestead 131 Bridge Street.
Chester White, the builder of 222 Bridge Street is probably the builder of this house as well.”
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873.
Hales, John G. Plan of the Town of 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.
Northampton Directory 1915 and 1918
Hampshire County, Registry of Deeds, Book 6303, Page 273; Book, 1576, Page 1; Book 1570, Page 139; Book 881, Page 316;
Hampshire County, Registry of Probate, Estate of Frank Borowaki, Docket Number 28761.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [149 BRIDGE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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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 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. The house is among a number of
houses built by Chester White of Northampton, all of which carry his distinctive features. This potential historic
district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.