59 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-203 Easthampton NTH.2092
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 59 Pomeroy Terrace
Historic Name: Lewis Warner House
Uses: Present: Institutional offices
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1885-1895
Source: Registry of Deeds, 1895 Atlas
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: aluminum siding
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding applied, windows replaced, ca. 1970.
Condition: fair
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.289 acres
Setting: This building occupies a corner lot on a
residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [59 POMEROY TERRACE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2092
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Warner House is a Queen Anne style house that has been sided in aluminum in a manner that obscures most of its
architectural details. Its form remains visible, however. It is two-and-a-half stories under a low-pitched roof with cross gables on
the east façade and the north and a round, two-story tower under a conical roof set on the hipped roof of a porch. The porch
and tower are between the two cross-gables. The gable eaves make full returns to form pediments that are so deeply recessed
that they contain windows. On the east the window is a leaded fanlight and on the north the window is small and rectangular.
The east façade has a porch on its south end. The porch rests on posts. On the north elevation one of the outstanding features
still visible is the stair window with three staggered windows below a panel with a floral relief.
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: “The house was probably built between 1884 and 1895. Lewis Warner purchased the lot of land in 1874,
at which time a smaller house was on the property. Given the retardataire nature of Northampton architecture, the house could
hardly have been built before 1890. It is unquestionably indicated on the 1895 Easthampton-Northampton Atlas.”
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, Hampshire County, 1368.383, 381; 1366.223; 1002.86; 828.297; 592.367; 532.45; 514.101; 511.445; 312.91