354 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
25A-95 Easthampton NTH.369
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 354 Bridge Street
Historic Name: Edwin Clark House
Uses: Present: single-family house
Original: single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1850
Source: map of 1830 and atlas of 1860
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
garage
Major Alterations (with dates): Vinyl siding and vinyl
replacement windows, ca. 1990.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.34 acres
Setting: House faces east on a large corner lot.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [354 Bridge Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.369
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Clark House is a two-and-a-half story, front-gabled house whose eaves make full returns to form a pediment. An arched
Italianate style window is centered in the pediment. The vinyl-sided house is three bays wide and the equivalent of five bays
deep. It has a shed roof portico on the east façade resting on altered posts, but respondent pilasters remain at each side of the
entry from the original door surround. They have capitals and high Italianate style plinths. There is one interior chimney on the
roof and there is a one-story wing on the north elevation. Sash in the house is 1/1 vinyl replacement. The use of vinyl siding
and replacement windows has obscured historical details on the 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.
From the Form B of 1980, “This early 19th century dwelling is located on Bridge Street about a mile east of the center of town on
the way to the Connecticut River bridge. The available 19th century maps and atlases show this house belonging to Edwin
Clark, a farmer. The Clark family was a prominent, early Northampton family.”
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.