Prospect Street 10.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, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-202 Easthampton NTH.676 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 10 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Alexander McCallum House Uses: Prsent: Smith College Building Original: residence Date of Construction: 1882-1883 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate, metal cresting Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: Good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.851 acres Setting: This house occupies a broad lot on the Smith campus that extends to the north side of Elm Street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [10 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.676 ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. This property is on the National Register. 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. The McCallum House is a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne style
house with a slate-covered hipped roof from which projects a cross gable on its north elevation. Centered on the five bay east façade is a projecting pedimented pavilion three stories
in height. It contains on the first story the main entrance with double leaf doors. A full width porch on Queen Anne turned posts crosses the east façade and is a stacked porch with
a second story portion, one bay wide under a shed roof supported on heavy turned Queen Anne posts. At the third story level the pavilion has a pair of windows beneath the pediment whose
field is filled with ornamental fretwork. The house has a through-cornice, exterior wall chimney on its south elevation adjacent to a three-sided bay. Cresting rail ornaments the roof
ridge. 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: ”In 1882, Alexander McCallum purchased parcels of land and water rights to a well at the corner of Elm and Prospect Streets from the
heirs of Charles Talbot. His home was erected by 1884, as it is shown on the atlas of that year. Mr. McCallum was born in Canada of Scotch parentage in 1843. He came to Northampton in
1866 and took a position as clerk in the local store operated by H.L. Field, the brother of the more famous merchant Marshall Field. On Jan. 24, 1871, the Hampshire Gazette reported
‘Mr. Alexander McCallum, for several years a popular clerk in one of our dry goods stores will open a store in the new block opposite the Fitch Hotel on Shop Row.’ This business became
one of the most prosperous in the state. In 1883, Mr. McCallum went into the silk Hosiery business. By the early 20th century, the McCallum Hosiery Company, located on West Street, had
the largest such mill in the world. In 1929, the property was acquired by Smith College and the lower floor was used as a Students’ club, with the upper floors containing guest rooms.
This continued until 1948, when the house became the Faculty Club House. After the construction of the new Faculty Club on College Lane in 1960, this became faculty offices.” 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. 375-P.241, 243-273, 855-227