83 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-221 Easthampton NTH.2103
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 83 Pomeroy Terrace
Historic Name: Leonard G. Field House
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1868-1870
Source: Registry of Deeds, Gazette, 11/19/67
Style/Form: French Second Empire
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboard
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.303 acres
Setting: This house occupies a corner lot with a
wide, well-landscaped side yard.
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Field House is a good example of the French Second Empire, the only example in this neighborhood of mainly Italianate
style houses on Phillips Place and Pomeroy Terrace. It is a two-and-a-half story house three bays wide and the equivalent of
three bays deep; there are two ells on the west, one of one-and-a-half stories and the second of one-story. The French Second
Empire style shared many architectural features with the Italianate style and here the slate-covered mansard roof has been
constructed with wide Italianate style eaves that are supported on paired brackets. There is a cross-gable wing on the north and
a wraparound porch that crosses the east and south elevations and turns on to the west elevation. The porch is supported on
posts with high impost blocks and its railing has an arched cutout pattern seen elsewhere on the street. The porch roof has
paired brackets at its eaves as well. Wide corner pilasters frame the building. There are pedimented dormers on the roof on the
east, north and south elevations. They have brackets at their eaves as well. Windows elsewhere in the house have architrave
surrounds and on the first story the architrave surrounds are topped by molded cornice lintels.
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 residence with mansard roof was built by L.G. Field in the late 1860’s. He purchased the lot in 1867
from Caroline Lawrence, widow of William Lawrence, whose 1859 Italianate house still stands to the north. The Daily
Hampshire Gazette reported: ‘L.G. Field has purchased a building lot, Phillips Place, from Mrs. William Lawrence, and will build
a $10,000 house on it.’ The substantial dwelling and land were sold in 1870 for $8500.
Phillips Place and its extension, Pomeroy Terrace, were developed as a residential area in the later nineteenth century.”
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, 1169.46, 1169.43, 1106.393, 994.342, 873.138, 596.246, 511.495, 337.449, 300.361,
254.317
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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.