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16 Pomeroy Terrace 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-236 Easthampton NTH.2114 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 16 Pomeroy Terrace Historic Name: George Briscoll House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1915-1929 Source: Registry of Deeds, 860.116, 710.360 Style/Form: Craftsman bungalow Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: wood shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.281 acres Setting: This house sits on a ridge above the Northampton fairgrounds to the east. It faces west. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [16 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2114 __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. Northampton has a number of fine Craftsman style bungalows and this house is among the best-preserved of them. It is a one- and-a-half story house under a low-pitched hipped roof with rafters exposed at its eaves. The roof has a centered hipped roof battered dormer on the west façade and smaller battered dormers on the north and south sides of the roof as well. As a Craftsman style bungalow the hipped roof extends on the west to create a deep porch that rests on four, battered (larger at the base than at the top) half-length posts that in turn rest on brick piers. Railings extend between the piers. The wood shingle- sided house has the local-materials/hand crafted look favored by the style. A narrow jetty runs beneath the first story windows and an oriel window is located on the south elevation. Window surrounds and the center door surround of the three-bay façade are all battered. On the north side of the door is a three-part window composition and on the south side is an angled bay window with 20/2 sash that is found elsewhere in the house. A characteristic Craftsman, through-cornice chimney is on the north elevation. 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 bungalow was constructed between 1915 and 1930. A Thomas Ryan purchased portions of the two adjoining lots in 1915 and sold the new lot to George Briscoll. Briscoll’s executor sold for $8500 the parcel of land—with or without bungalow—in 1929. The price may reflect an undeveloped lot or it may merely reflect the sale of a portion of an estate. If not erected prior to the 1929 sale, the bungalow undoubtedly constructed soon after. The same set of house plans may well have served for this residence and for that at 127 Bridge Street. Marcus Whiffen notes in American Architecture Since 1780 that plans might be obtained for as little as five dollars.” 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] [16 POMEROY TERRACE] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2114 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 Briscoll 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.