Prospect Street 137.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 wTopographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24D-187-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 137 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Mrs. White House Uses: Present: Single-family dwelling Original: Single-family dwelling Date of Construction: ca. 1870 Source: map of 1873 Style/Form: altered to Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: aluminum Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added ca. 1980 Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.175 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot that slopes down to the east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [137 Prospect Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. _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 a one-and-a-half story house that is three bays wide and three bays deep under a front-gable
roof. There is a one-and-a-half story ell on the east followed by a separate garage. The house was enlarged by the ell and by a full-width dormer across the north side of the roof, which
effectively raises the house to two-stories on that elevation. The west façade has a side entry sheltered by a Colonial Revival style pedimented portico on two Doric columns. The house
has been sided in aluminum, which obscures further details. . 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. Prospect Street was one of the early streets in Northampton and first appears on the map of 1794.
This section of it was not developed into house lots until the middle of the 19th century. By 1860 there was a house on the lot and in 1873 it was owned by Mrs. White. In 1910 Edward
Blanchfield who was Northampton’s Registrar of Voters lived here. He shared the house in 1919 with Mrs. Catherine White who was a widow. In 1919 Blanchfield had become Superintendant
of Sewers for Northampton. He remained in the house, taking it over from Mrs. White, and in his job through 1940. 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. Northampton Street Directories 1919-1940 U.S. Federal Censuses 1900-1930 Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City,
Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.