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36 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): May, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-193 Easthampton NTH.2081 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 36 Phillips Place Historic Name: Charles P. Loomis House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1851-1856 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: faux brick and asphalt shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding applied, garage attached, ca. 1950. Windows replaced, ca. 2000. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.217 acres Setting: This house is set side-ways on its lot unlike the remaining houses on this short, residential street. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [36 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2081 _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 two-and-a-half story house under a side-gable roof. It has a one-and-a-half story wing on the north followed by a one- story attached garage. In 1980 the house was identified as being Greek Revival in style, due probably to the full eaves returns in the south elevation creating a pediment. Now that the three-bay house has been sided in two types of artificial siding, its style is obscured, but it is Italianate in its two, tall, interior chimneys with ornamented caps, and the filigree portico at its center door surround as well as the pedimented gable, which was also a common feature of Italianate style houses in Northampton. A secondary recessed porch is located on the west side of the wing. It is supported on posts and has a square baluster railing. The windows of the house have been replaced and enclosed slightly, which distorts the building’s original fenestration pattern. The house takes its place, however, among its neighbors, which are largely Italianate in style reflecting the decades in which the street was developed. 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: “This simple Greek Revival house was built for Charles P. Loomis during the early 1850’s. This is lot 5 of Edward Clarke’s subdivision off of Hawley Street. The 1854 County Map lists H.S. Gear (sic) next to this house. H.S. Gere at this time was Assistant Editor of the Hampshire Herald and Northampton Courier. He later became editor and in 1858, when the Courier combined with the Gazette, he served as editor of the Hampshire Gazette and Northampton Courier. This position was held into the early 20th century. However, Gere does not show up in the Registry of Deeds as owning the property. Perhaps Gere lived here for a short time while the property was owned by C.P. Loomis of Hartford. In 1858, the property was sold to Benjamin E. Cook, whose homestead was on Bridge Street. Cook’s son, B.E. Cook Jr., probably lived here after that. The property remained in the Cook family for the rest of the 19th century.” 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. 181-P. 277, 168-267, 128-20, 126-6 and 210-483 INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [36 PHILLIPS PLACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2081 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 Loomis 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.