66 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
32A-176 Easthampton NTH.2071
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 66 Bridge Street
Historic Name: Asahel Pomeroy House
Uses: Present: museum
Original: single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1792
Source: Historical Society Records
Style/Form: Federal
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick and stone
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates): west porch added ca.
1900. Portico added ca. 1870.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.692 acres
Setting: South-facing house is set close to the street,
behind a white picket fence.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [66 Bridge Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 1
NTH.2071
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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 late Federal style house, two-and-a-half stories in height under a slate-covered, side-gable roof whose eaves make full
returns to create pedimented gables. The house is five bays wide and three bays deep and it has two interior chimneys. The
windows have large 6/6 sash with architrave surrounds topped by lintels with crown moldings on the first story. On the second
story the window surrounds are architrave without the added lintels. The center door surround is architrave with corner blocks.
It has a Gothic Revival style portico with slender corner posts supporting wood tracery at the top, mid-way along the sides and at
the bottom of the portico. The door itself of the entry is six-panel and has its own louvered shutters and narrow flanking
sidelights.
To this main block of the house is attached a one-and-a-half story shed roof addition on the north and a hipped Colonial Revival
style porch on the west. The porch rests on Doric columns and has fine, square baluster railings.
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, “The builder of this house was Asahel Pomeroy, a son of General Seth Pomeroy, a famous soldier of
the Colonial Wars and one of the heroes of Bunker Hill. The house was given to the Historical Society in the will of Thomas M.
Shepard (1856-1923).”
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.
Northampton Historical Society. Representative Families of Northampton, “Seth Pomeroy”, lecture by Thomas Monroe Shepard;
file on Shepard House.
Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884.
Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.