67 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-215 Easthampton NTH.2100
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 67 Pomeroy Terrace
Historic Name: Sarah Butler House
Uses: Present: Institutional offices
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: ca. 1900
Source: visual evidence
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Benjamin Hammett Seabury
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: aluminum
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding applied and windows replaced, ca. 1970-90.
Condition: fair
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.161 acres
Setting: This building occupies a corner lot on a
largely residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [67 POMEROY TERRACE]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.2100
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Butler House is a Colonial Revival style house that would originally have had a fine exterior siding in clapboards and
shingles that now are covered with aluminum siding. This is a two-and-a-half story building under a gambrel roof with a broad
jetty between first and second stories and a centered, cross-gable dormer on its east façade with a gambrel roof. Flanking the
center dormer are two, shed roofed dormers and across the west side of the roof is a single, shed roof dormer that effectively
raises the rear elevation by one-half a story. The east façade of the house is three bays wide and has a center porch on ¾
length Doric columns above a solid railing. On the north end of the façade is an angled bay at first story level. Windows in the
house have all been replaced causing a further loss of architectural character.
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 1976: “This cottage on Pomeroy Terrace was built about 1900 for Sarah Butler, whose family owned a
homestead on Hawley Street and the land to the rear which became Butler Place in 1892. It is probably that Sarah Butler
commissioned the building of this cottage when the homestead was sold around the turn of the century.
The cottage, built in an area of architecturally fine mid-19th century residences, was designed by Springfield architect
B.H. Seabury. Seabury graduated from MIT in 1879 and same to Springfield in 1881 after having worked on the construction of
the Brooklyn Bridge. Originally in the firm of Richmond & Seabury, Seabury worked alone between 1889 and the early 1900’s
when his son Harry M. Seabury joined him. Two commercial blocks in Northampton, the Hammond and Dewey Blocks, were
also designed by Seabury.”
The use of the term “cottage” is misleading, as this is a substantial house.
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.