280-282 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
25C-065 Easthampton NTH.388
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 280-282 Bridge Street
Historic Name: Myron Day House
Uses: Present: two-family house
Original: single-family house
Date of Construction: 1875-1885
Source: street directories
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added and windows replaced ca. 2000.
Second story of porch enclosed ca. 1970.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.246 acres (Northampton Assessors)
Setting: This house faces east towards the Connecticut
River.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [280-282 BRIDGE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.388
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Myron Day house is a large Queen Anne style house two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof. The main
block of the house is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep and there is a two-and-a-half story ell on the rear that
adds approximately five bays to the house for a long rectangular plan. The plan is given some variety by a shallow transverse
gable bay on the south. Vinyl siding obscures much of the detail that would have contributed to the house’s Queen Anne style
but remaining today are the house’s porches. On the east façade is a full-with porch on turned posts with scroll-cut brackets at
the eaves. It has a railing with turned balusters. A second porch, this one a full two-story porch, is on the south elevation of the
ell. These porches are supported on chamfered posts but also have eaves brackets. Windows are replacement 1/1 sash.
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, “Myron Day, a farmer, purchased a large parcel of land fronting on Bridge St. and running northerly to
Bates Street about 1880. This house was built as his homestead shortly thereafter. In 1886 he filed a subdivision plan for a new
street (originally called Beacon Street, but later changed to Day Avenue) to run through his land from bridge Stret or Bates
Street. At the time this was the most easterly street for residential purposes, along Bridge Street. The Massachusetts Central
Railroad, whose line opened in 1887, and ran easterly from the main north-south line in the center of town, built a bridge across
the Connecticut River just north of the Bridge Street bridge. The tracks ran roughly parallel to Bridge Street and opened up
many development opportunities.
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.
Hampshire County Registry of Deeds: Book: 8056, Page 251, Book 1791, Page 13, Book, 1009, Page 363, Book, 923, Page
338, Book. 405, Page 151,
Hampshire County Registry of Probate/ Family and Probate Court Docket #02P0386EP
Northampton Directories: 1875-76; 1885-86; 1895-96.