37 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-189 Easthampton NTH.2078
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 37 Pomeroy Terrace
Historic Name: Simon and Ann Dickinson House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: ca. 1870
Source: Atlas and Map
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards, flushboard
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.126 acre
Setting: This is an east-facing house on a shady
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.
The Dickinson House is a two-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof that has wide, braced eaves. There is a cross-
gabled wing on the south and a two-and-half story ell on the west for a T-shaped plan. In the angle between the main block and
the south wing is a one-story section one bay wide and two bays deep. A wraparound porch crosses this section and the east
façade and the main entry is in the one-story section while the east façade of the main block is only one bay wide. This is a
highly unusual plan and elevation and perhaps unique in Northampton. The wing has a paired sash window in the second story
and a rectangular bay window at the first story while the main block on the east has an angled bay on the first story and a pair ed
sash window on the second. Window sash is 2/2. Windows and the main door entry have Italianate pedimented lintels. The
west ell has a two-story porch on posts on its south elevation. The house is clapboard sided up to the area of the frieze beneath
the eaves and the frieze is flushboard sided. The porch has turned posts and square baluster railings. This is a fine example of
the Italianate style and it is well-maintained.
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 the Form B of 1980, “This L-shaped house was built between 1860 and 1873”.
In 1873 Pomeroy Terrace was called Phillips Place and this house was one of three on the west side of the street. It was
labeled as “Dickinson” and in 1884 it was S. Dickinson, seemingly Simon Dickinson who was 85 and retired and living with his
wife Martha, daughter and his sister. By 1895 Phillips Place had become Pomeroy Terrace and this house was owned by
William Sterling. William Sterling in 1900 was living in the house and practicing the law as a lawyer. He had two Irish immigrant
servants with him.
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 Count y, 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.
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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 Dickinson 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.