40 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-232 Easthampton NTH.2110
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 40 Pomeroy Terrace
Historic Name: M. M. French Carriage Barn
Uses: Present: Four-family residence
Original: Carriage Barn
Date of Construction: 1879-1884
Source: 1873 Beers Atlas & 1884 Walkers Atlas
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: possibly William Pratt, architect,
Northampton Exterior Material:
Foundation: not visible
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Fenestration altered, ca. 1990.
Condition: fair
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 4.214 acres
Setting: This is a north-facing building that is set back from
the street out of alignment with the neighboring houses.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [40 POMEROY TERRACE]
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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 wood shingle-sided carriage barn converted to a house. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a bracketed side-
gable roof and has a one-and-a-half story ell on the south for a T-shaped plan. Centered on its slate roof is an Italianate, flat
roofed cupola/ventilator that has been sided over. The north façade is three bays wide with a center entrance and a staircase
has been built to provide a front residential entry to the building on the north façade. The west is three bays deep and its center
bay at the second story is a large loading dock opening that has been enclosed. Windows at the second story were later
additions. The ell is two bays long and there is a pedestrian entry on its west 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 fine barn appears on the property of M.M. French in the 1884 Walkers Atlas. It closely resembles a
barn described as being built for E.E. Wakefield (who owned the property to the south on Phillips Place), ‘an elegant barn…3
stories in the rear, and two in front.’ It is possible that the structure was moved from the Wakefield property to the French
property prior to 1884.”
As the description of this carriage barn does not match its current number of stories, there is not strong evidence for being a
moved barn.
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] [40 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.
This former carriage barn 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. It represents one of the few remaining outbuildings that at one time accompanied each grand house. 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. Pratt is attributed as architect to this
building. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.