28 Pomeroy Terrace
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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-234 Easthampton NTH.2112
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 28 Pomeroy Terrace
Historic Name: Edgar Crooke House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1885-1886
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette, 2/16/1886
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: Charles H. Jones
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles
Roof: asbestos shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x| yes | | Date
Acreage: 1.54 acres
Setting: This house is set on a ridge above the
flood plain of the Connecticut River on the east. It is west-
facing.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [28 POMEROY TERRACE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
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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 one of the two grandest houses on Pomeroy Terrace, the second being at #2, and both were designed by the same
architect, Charles H. Jones. Here the two-and-a-half story house is L-shaped in plan with a front-gabled section three bays wide
and a wing section under a jerkin head roof three bays in width. In the angle of the two sections are a three-story tower under a
pyramidal roof, a two-story tower under a flat roof, and in their angle a one-story rounded bay. An angled bay at the house’s
southeast corner is topped by a gazebo porch on turned posts. The exterior of the house is given visual interest by bands of
shingles and clapboards separated by belt and stringcourses and in the front gable eaves make a return to form a deep
pediment that is supported by a row of consoles that are separated by a band of vertical windows. This is a complicated house
that meets the style’s aim to be picturesque by the variety of its architectural features.
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 Queen Anne House was designed by C.H. Jones, local artist and architect, for E.F. Crooks. Crooks
was the superintendent of Belding Brothers & Company, Silk Manufacturers. C.H. Jones designed a number of houses in the
Northampton area.”
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] [28 POMEROY TERRACE]
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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 Crooke 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 house was designed by
architect Charles H. Jones who built few things, but all of which were high style. His work deserves more research.
This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.