24 Phillips Place
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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): May, 2011
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32A-195 Easthampton NTH.2084
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 24 Phillips Place
Historic Name: Dickinson Carriage Barn
Uses: Present: storage barn
Original: carriage barn
Date of Construction: 1885-1895
Source: Atlas of Northampton
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good/fair
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.181 acres
Setting: This carriage barn faces south on a residential
street on which there are other carriage barns as well.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [24 PHILLIPS PLACE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2084
_x__ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
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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 striking carriage barn in the Queen Anne style. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a gable-on-hip roof, which is
an unusual roof form for an outbuilding. A pavilion projects from the south façade. Its front-gabled roof is ornamented with a
King Post truss with trefoil tracery in its openings. At first story level the pavilion has a double-leaf barn door opening and at the
second story is an arched door opening with a sliding door for loading hay into the second story loft. At each side of the pavilion
on the first story is a pedestrian door with 8-light transom. At the second story is a single window with 8/2 sash. The carriage
barn is clapboard sided on the first story, fish-scale shingle sided on the second story, and the two stories are separated by a
flaring jetty.
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 1976: “This well-built shingled barn was erected on Phillips Place between 1884 and 1895, probably on land
owned by C.H. Dickinson.” Charles Dickinson owned both this property and the one next door at 22 Phillips Place. He owned a
millinery story in Northampton but retired in his 60s and lived through 1920 at #22.
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] [24 PHILLIPS PLACE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2084
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 Butler carriage barn 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. It represents the once-ubiquitous carriage barns the formerly accompanied most homes. 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 st yles
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.