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22 Phillips Place 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): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-196 Easthampton NTH.2085 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 22 Phillips Place Historic Name: Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1854 Source: Registry of Deeds and Maps Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: flushboard Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.176 acres Setting: This house faces south on a fine residential street. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [22 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2085 _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 a fine, Italianate style house that is two-and-a-half stories in height under a low-pitched hipped roof with a single dormer on each of its elevations. The house is flushboard sided and has corner quoins to suggest an Italian palazzo. It is only two bays wide and two bays deep, but proportions are large and there are one-and-a-half story and one story ells on the north. There is a full-width porch on paneled posts with eaves brackets and turned baluster railings on the south façade. The porch is repeated with slightly slimmer posts on the west elevation. The two-bay south façade consists of a full-length window opening with French doors adjacent to the tall entry. Window surrounds have widely projecting lintels and windows have 2/2 sash. There are paired arched windows in the dormers. The Osborn House is part of a display of various Italianate designs on Phillips Place and is unique among them. 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: “In 1847, a subdivision plan for Phillips Place was filed by Edward Clarke. This was the first street to be opened off of Hawley Street and was laid out through a part of the Clarke homestead. In 1854, Sophia and Celia [sic. Cecilia] Osborn purchased lot no. 2 and Mr. Clarke’s plan for $450. The map of that year shows a house with ‘S and C Osborn’ listed as the owners. This property was owned by the Osborns until about 1870 when Ruth Dickinson purchased the homestead.” Ruth had lived with the Osborns as early as 1850 in a large household headed by Jacob Osborne whose relationships are not clear from the federal census. In 1884 R.B. Dickinson was still occupying the house, but by 1895 C. H. and Elizabeth Dickinson owned the house and its neighbor at 24 Phillips Place. Charles owned a millinery store in Northampton. Charles H. and Elizabeth Dickinson were married late in life when they were 70 and 60 years old, respectively. This was Charles’ second wife, the first, Martha having died after 1870. Charles and Elizabeth lived in this house with their Irish immigrant servant Sarah Smith. By 1920 Elizabeth had died, Charles H. Dickinson was 95 and sharing the house with his son Charles H. Dickinson, Jr. and his wife Clara. None of the three was employed. 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. 154-P. 470, 119-201 INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [22 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2085 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 Osborne House 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, 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. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.