Prospect Street 175.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):
April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24D-060-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 175 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Mrs. Roach House Uses: Present: Two-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1860-1873 Source: maps of 1860 and 1873 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: aluminum Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows replaced,
ca. 1980 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.077 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot and faces west.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [175 Prospect Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. ___ 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 good example of a small Italianate style house, many of which have been lost in Northampton. It is one-and-a-half
stories in height under a front-gable roof and has a one-and-a-half story ell on the east. Now aluminum-sided the house would originally have been clapboard-sided and more of its architectural
details visible. The house is three bays wide and its west façade is crossed by a full-width porch on chamfered Italianate posts with brackets at the eaves. There are no railings on
the porch, a design that was relatively common during the Italianate period in order to suggest an open Italian arcade. Sash is mostly 1/1 replacement but in the west gable field is
an original 6/6 sash. The house has an Italianate style, three-sided bay window on the south and its eaves are thinly boxed and have wide eaves as was common during the period. 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. This house appears clearly on the map of 1873 and in 1895 is the home of Mrs. Roach, for whom it is named. In 1860 it would have been one of the last houses on the north
end of Prospect Street as the street did not begin to fill in until after 1860. In 1910 the house was owned and occupied by Daniel Murphy and Mrs. Mary Murphy, who was a widow of Cornelius
Murphy. Daniel Murphy worked for the railroad as did a number of Prospect Street residents in the last third of the 19th century. Daniel Murphy was still living here in 1930 and in 1940
he was replaced by James Lucey, who was a clerk. 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.