372 North Farms Road
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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, 2011
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
7-15 Easthampton NTH.6
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) North Farms
Address: 372 North Farms Road
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: late 19th century
Source: visual evidence
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: parged brick
Wall/Trim: clapboard
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows replaced, ca. 2000
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 1.3 acres
Setting: This house sits on a rise in the landscape and
faces east.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [372 NORTH FARMS ROAD]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.6
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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 one-and-a-half story house with a front-gable roof with a center chimney and a cross-gable on the south elevation. It
has a long ell on the west. The clapboard-sided house is three bays wide with a side hall entry and a Queen Anne style porch
that crosses its east façade and wraps around to the south elevation. The porch has ¾ length turned posts that rest on
fieldstone piers and arrow-shaped scroll-cut brackets at its eaves. Adjacent to the south porch is a one-story angled bay window.
The ell originally had a side porch on the south that has been enclosed as a one-story section. The ell of one-and-a-half stories
has a cross-gable on its south elevation. Attached to the ell on its west elevation is a one-story secondary ell. Window
surrounds and the main door surround are flat stock and without trim. Windows are 1/1.
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: “It is possible that this is a remodeled house of earlier vintage, as the property was originally in the hands
of the Bridgeman family, the first settlers of the North Farms area. Noah Bridgeman was voted a tract of land on ‘Horse
Mountain’ by the town in 1759. The intent was to encourage settlement of outlying areas, as the threat of Indian attack
disappeared.”
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.
Registry of Deeds: Bk. 618-P. 26, 152-310, 76-496, 58-60