Market Street 109.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
March, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 32A-3 Easthampton NTH.2012 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 109 Market Street Historic Name: William
C. Prentiss House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1850’s Source: Registry of Deeds and Map Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick, concrete Wall/Trim: aluminum, asbestos and wood shingles Roof: not visible Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Fenestration
inserted, porch enclosed, second ell added, window sash replaced with 1/1. n.d. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.177 acres Setting: This house occupies a slightly
raised lot behind a low embankment on a corner.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [109MARKET STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2012 ___ 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. Similar to the Market Street Italianate style house at 80 Market Street, this house was intended
to resemble an Italian villa with its flat roof, wide eaves with paired brackets above metal grates in the attic frieze. It has had, however, quite a few alterations that have changed
its appearance. It is two stories in height and three bays wide and two deep and a former wraparound porch has been enclosed on the south elevation and stacked with a second floor addition
on the west façade. The house has a flat-roofed, two-story ell on the east. It has been sided and a second ell under a gable roof added on its east in addition to having new fenestration
inserted in it. That second ell is aluminum sided and was clearly not part of the original house. 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: “The house seems to have been built for
William Prentiss, a ‘painter and glazier.’ Mr. Prentiss began in business in 1820, and had worked with his son William F. for many years. They were reported to be the ‘principal sign
painters in the county.’ Mr. Prentiss bought this lot of land, which was lot no. 2 on Josiah Whitney’s 1854 subdivision plan for a portion of Market/North Streets and a new street to
be called Walnut Street for the sum of $200 in 1857. However, the 1854 map of Northampton shows a house on this site owned by Mr. Prentiss, confusing the title chain. However, stylistically,
this house would not date much earlier than this map.” 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: Bk. 222-P.
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