396 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): 10/2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
25A-64 Easthampton NTH.366
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 396 Bridge Street
Historic Name: Frank and Hattie Clark House
Uses: Present: single-family house
Original: single-family house
Date of Construction: 1900-1915
Source: maps and atlases
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Chester White, attr.
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: asphalt and tar paper shingles
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
A garage built 1925
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: poor
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.219 acres
Setting: House is very near the intersection with I-91, so is
in a busy area. It has a large corner lot that has mature
trees.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET NORTHAMPTON] [396 Bridge Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.366
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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 two-and-a-half story house under a hipped roof. Like its neighbors at 222 Bridge Street and 274 Bridge Street this
house has a hipped roof pavilion that projects from the east façade. The pavilion contains the entrance to the house and an
adjacent large, fixed-light window. The pavilion is crossed by a porch on Gothic posts. A three-sided oriel window under a
polygonal roof is located on the south elevation. The south elevation is five bays deep, and includes a side entry with a shed
roof hood. Dormers on the roof, like those on the houses at 222 and 274 Bridge Street are triangular and glazed. Trim is also
similar to the other houses with a cornice supported on a row of fine brackets, molded architrave surrounds on the windows and
the small brackets repeated on the dormers. Given the idiosyncratic similarities among these three houses, it is highly likely that
this house was the work of builder Chester White.
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 large, 2 ½ story house was built in the early 20th century on one of J. W. Hubbard’s subdivision
lots. Hubbard had opened up his homestead to residential development in 1891, and this was one of the few lots available that
was directly on Bridge Street. Most of the other lots were located on the newly created Hubbard Avenue, and Marshall, Swan
and Crosby Streets.”
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.