59.1 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-202 Easthampton NTH.2091
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 59.1 Phillips Place
Historic Name: Mrs. O. S. Clark Outbuilding
Uses: Present: Residence
Original: Undesignated outbuilding
Date of Construction: 1873-1884
Source: Atlas of Northampton
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: not visible
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Converted to residential use, ca. 1900.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.354 acres
Setting: This building faces east towards Pomeroy
Terrace and is set back from both Pomeroy and Phillips
Place in a residential neighborhood.
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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 two-story Italianate style building under a flat roof with wide eaves overhangs. Centered on the roof is a glazed
belvedere, a feature that is found on several Italianate houses in the neighborhood, and one that was introduced in New England
during the Italianate period. The building is two bays wide and two bays deep for a square plan. Windows are replacement 1/1
and have simple flat surrounds. Across the east façade is a full-width, hipped roof porch that is Colonial Revival in style being
supported on four Doric columns. It was probably added at the time the outbuilding was converted to residential use.
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 small house off Pomeroy Terrace first served as an outbuilding for 59 Phillips Place.”
The map of 1873 is illegible for this house, but in 1884 it is labeled as a Hampden County Bank Property and in 1895 the house
and its outbuilding were owned by Mrs. O. S. Clark.
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: 119.201
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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 Clark House Outbuilding that has been converted to a 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, as it represents one of the last few outbuildings remaining in the 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.
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