207 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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Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons
Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Date (month / year): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
25C-239 Easthampton NTH.412
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 207 Bridge Street
Historic Name: Henry and Mary Foxon House
Uses: Present: single-family residence
Original: single-family residence
Date of Construction: ca. 1910
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.372 acres
Setting: This is a west-facing house on a busy residential
street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [207 BRIDGE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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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 conservative version of the Colonial Revival style house, though it was also curiously progressive. It is two stories in
height beneath a truncated hipped roof of slate. As recently as 1980 the roof was still crowned with a cresting rail, a feature that
was largely outdated by 1910. The clapboard-sided house has brick foundations and is a simple three bays wide and four bays
deep. It has a hipped roof porch on Colonial Revival style fluted posts and a simple flat stock surround on its entry. There is a
wide frieze beneath the eaves but the lack of additional Colonial Revival style ornament may have been due to a modest budget.
What is progressive for its ca. 1910 construction date, however, is the use of two large, single-glazed windows flanking the entry.
Rather than windows with multiple lights or even a transom light, the builder of the house used the most up-to-date window
design and the resulting combination of 19th and 20th century architectural features produced a unique house.
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.
In 1895 this was the side lot of the house of James and Susan Munyan who were farmers. At some point after 1895 the Munyan
house was removed and around 1910 this house was erected for Henry and Mary Foxon and their children Roy, Fern, Herbert
and George. The family had come to Massachusetts from Wisconsin and Henry was a gardener for a private family. He
continued in that profession through 1930. In 1930 the Foxon’s house was valued at $10,000, a not inconsiderable amount.
George Foxon, the youngest child was in Northampton at a different address as late as 1959.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Registry of Deeds: Book 705 page 347; book 658 page 75; Book 638 page 98.
Northampton Directory of 1915
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] [207 BRIDGE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 2
NTH.412