344 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
25A-101 Easthampton NTH.371
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 344 Bridge Street
Historic Name: Alpheus Lyman House, attr.
Uses: Present: two-family house
Original: single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1865
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): siding added ca. 1990;
second story porch enclosed post 1976; windows replaced
post 1976; polygonal room added to ell, ca. 1990.
Condition: fair
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.67 acres
Setting: This house faces east on a busy residential street
running on a ridge parallel to the Connecticut River.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON [344 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.
Although this house has had considerable alterations including siding and enclosing of a porch, it retains much of its original
Italianate detail and form. The house is two stories in height under a nearly flat roof. It is T-shaped in plan with a main block
approximately five bays wide and one bay deep, a transverse gable bay on the front that one bay wide, and ells on the west of
two stories and one story. The house has widely-overhanging eaves that are supported on paired brackets, an Italianate
decorative feature that is repeated at the eaves of the three-sided bay windows on the east and south elevations. A wide frieze
beneath the eaves contains attic grilles – a feature that was often used in the Italianate style. The front (east) transverse bay
has a two-story, three-sided bay with arched windows that now contain 1/1 sash. In the angle of the main block and the
transverse gable is a porch. The first story of the porch has a hipped roof and is supported on paired Italianate chamfered posts
on high plinths. The porch roof has modillion blocks at its eaves and its railing repeats the arch in a jig-saw-cut pattern. A
smaller second story stacked porch has been enclosed. Windows in the house have footed lintels and the two story ell on the
west has an enclosed side porch and added polygonal room of one story at its south west corner. There is one chimney on the
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 the Form B of 1976, “This bracketed residence was built on upper Bridge Street around 1865. The parcel was known as
the Alpheus Lyman homestead in an 1864 deed to the Graves family. The dwelling house, although not specifically mentioned
was probably erected shortly before or after this transfer.”
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.
Hampshire County Registry of Deeds, Book 1203 page 412; Book 861 page 67; Book 756 page 59; Book 690, page 135; Book
676 page 453; Book 666 page 101; Book 417 page 137; Book 405 page 449; Book 220. page 259
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 [344 Bridge Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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