102 Crescent 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
24D-252 Easthampton NTH.348
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 102 Crescent Street
Historic Name: William C. Pomeroy House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1887
Source: Atlases & Springfield Daily Republican
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: shingles
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Shingle siding added and attic windows installed, ca. 1980.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.262 acre
Setting: This house occupies a corner lot that is
raised. It is facing the northeast.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [102 CRESCENT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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__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 an unusual roof composition for a two-and-a-half story house as it is a pyramidal hipped roof from which extend two
wings so that only a small portion of the hipped roof is visible from the street. The wing on the façade is two bays wide and one
bay deep and the wing on the north elevation is three bays wide and one bay deep. A third wing, a two-and-a-half story ell
projects from the west elevation. Two shed-roofed porches fit into the angles of the wings. They both rest on turned posts with
brackets at the eaves and turned balusters in the railings connecting the posts. The porches both have ornamentally cut aprons.
The house has 2/2 sash.
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 Form B of 1980: “Crescent Street was laid out in 1886, continuing the cut Henshaw Avenue had made midway along the
slopes of Round Hill. The street encircled the hill, ending up back on Elm Street. By 1895, most of the lots between Summer
Street and Round Hill Road had been developed.
The house was built in 1887 for William Pomeroy, a foreman for the Norwood Engineering Company in Florence.”
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.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [102 CRESCENT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 2
NTH.348
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 Pomeroy House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary
corridor, Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential
historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense
with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton
for several hundred years to the present.
Architecturally it is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses,
the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s
most well-known designers. The Pomeroy House is a modest example of the Queen Anne style and would contribute
to the district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.