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74 Bridge Street Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month / year): August, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-177 Easthampton NTH.2072 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 74 Bridge Street Historic Name: First Parish Parsonage Uses: Present: multi-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1866 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, October 30, 1866. Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt, architect Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Second dwelling unit at rear of property. Major Alterations (with dates): Rehabilitation, 2010. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.528 acres Setting: Surrounded by a picket fence, this house is south-facing on a broad lot. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [74 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2072 _x__ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This is one of the fine Italianate style houses that adds to the full range of styles found on Bridge Street. It is a two-and-a-half story building under a side-gable roof, on which are two interior chimneys. The house is three bays wide and two bays deep with a two-and-a-half and a one-and-a-half story ell on the north elevation for a T-shaped plan. The clapboard-sided house sits on high brick foundations and its prominence on the street is increased by its tall proportions. The main block of the house has a centered transverse gable on its roof following Italianate fashion and roof eaves have a wide overhang that is ornamented with carved brackets. A wrap-around porch crosses the south façade and turns with a round corner on to the west elevation. It is supported on Italianate chamfered posts that have round bosses at railing level. The porch has a pedimented entry and its eaves reflect those of the main roof with a row of brackets. The porch is stacked with a second floor section one bay wide at the center bay. Both stories of the porch have railings with finely-turned balusters. The second story porch is also supported on Italianate style posts. Windows in the house have 4/1 sash and have trabeated surrounds with footed lintels and sills. There is a three-sided bay window at the northwest corner of the main block of the house. The main entry to the house has double leaf doors beneath a high transom window of two lights. At the second floor is a second pair of double leaf doors leading on to the porch and these doors are topped by an arched glass transom. Arched Italianate windows are also found at the attic level in the gable fields. The two ells on the north side of the house are entered beneath by a hood on consoles. Windows in this section of the house repeat the Italianate surrounds of the main block with footed lintels and sills. At the north west corner of the lot is a second building of 2010 designed to correspond to a carriage house but acting as a second residence. 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.”The First Church erected this parsonage on Bridge Street in 1866-67, on the site of the previous parish house. It was reported to cost over $6,000. William Fenno Pratt drew the plans for the Italianate villa style building; he drew similar plans for a “tasty parsonage” for the Catholic Society in the same year. The Catholic Society parsonage, now a funeral home, still stands on King Street. It was apparently more modest as it cost only about $4,000. Pratt followed a similar plan in the remodeling of a house for Henry Lathrop in 1859 and a house for George Sargeant in 1869. These two buildings are located at 82 and 96 Bridge Street.” 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. Daily Hampshire Gazette, October 30, 1866. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [74 BRIDGE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2072 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The First Parish Parsonage would contribute to a potential Pomeroy Terrace historic district that developed south and east of the Bridge Street Cemetery from the second third of the 19th century as Northampton’s finest residential district. Original residents here were merchants, retired farmers, lawyers, clergymen, and other professions. As the century progressed the adjacent streets were laid out for the growing middle class with railroad personnel joining clerks, teachers, and others. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the fine examples of the 19th century architectural styles from the Greek and Gothic Revivals, Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. The district includes significant examples of the work of Northampton architect William Fenno Pratt. The First Parish Parsonage is among his alterations. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.