John L. Draper House (1895)

At 2 Pomeroy Terrace in Northampton is an impressive (and impressively situated) Queen Anne mansion, built for John L. Draper in 1895. Draper, a wealthy retired merchant, held a competition for the design of his house. The winner from among the three competing local architects who submitted plans was Curtis Page, whose design included an impressive three-story tower, behind which is a decorative chimney built of Longmeadow stone and red brick. A developer restored the house and converted it into condominiums in the mid-1980s.