29 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-199 Easthampton NTH.2087
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 29 Phillips Place
Historic Name: J.M. Turner House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: ca. 1865
Source: Registry of Deeds 289.405
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.36 acres
Setting: This house faces north on a short,
residential street.
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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 later version of the Italianate style than its neighbors at 22 and 24 Phillips Place so it does not try to imitate a palazzo or
villa with a flat roof and flushboard siding. Rather, it is a two-and-a-half story, clapboard-sided house under a front-gabled roof
with a cross-gable wing on the east. Connecting the two sections of the house is a wraparound porch supported on Italianate
chamfered posts. One section of the porch has a railing with turned balusters, but most of the porch is without railings, which
was a common practice for Italianate houses. The wide eaves overhangs of the roof are supported on brackets and first floor
windows, although not full-length, are elongated. The entry of the three bay façade has a double-leaf door. Windows have shed
roof lintels and are paired in the wing’s east elevation, as was often the practice in Italianate style houses.
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 1975: “This bracketed style house was built in Phillips Place about 1865. In 1865, A.J. Lincoln sold to Turner,
for $2000, lot #16 in Phillips Place. The lot had not been built on as the result of a provision in a previous deed, 149.461.”
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, Hampshire County: 289.405, 226.23, 149.461
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [29 PHILLIPS PLACE]
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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 Turner 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.