72 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): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
32A-224 Easthampton NTH.2106
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 72 Pomeroy Terrace
Historic Name: Raymond B. King House
Uses: Present: Institutional Building
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: ca. 1910
Source: Atlas and Directory
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Rear deck added ca. 2000.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.27 acres
Setting: This building is set back from the street
and makes up part of a campus of institutional buildings.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [72 POMEROY TERRACE]
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_x__ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets.
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This is one of two, Colonial Revival style houses on Pomeroy Terrace, the other being at # 67. Both are Dutch Colonial Revival
with gambrel roofs. The King House is two-and-a-half stories in height and the lower slope of its gambrel roof flares and extends
around the house as a pent roof between first and second stories. The house is three bays wide and two deep and on the west
façade the center entry has a shell-vaulted portico that rests on consoles above battered pilasters. Flanking the entry are two,
triple-composition windows. At second story level is a shed roof dormer that extends nearly the full width of the lower slope of
the roof. Above it at attic level is a centered eyebrow window. On the north elevation a brick and stone-shouldered chimney
laces through the pent roof.
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 1980: “This relatively small, well set-back house was built sometime before 1915 on a part of the Henry
Dickinson estate, Raymond B. King, a shipping clerk for McCallum Hosiery Co., is listed here in the 1915 directory.”
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] [72 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 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.