Prospect Street 182.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-238-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 182 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Foley-O’Neil House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Two-family house Date of Construction: post-1895 Source: map of 1895 Style/Form: Queen Anne/Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards/shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2005
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.162 acres Setting: This house is set on a high corner lot and faces east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [182 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 house is a good example of the mixture of Colonial Revival and Queen Anne styles. It has the
mixed materials and complex elevation of the Queen Anne, but the full gable returns, the Doric column-supported porch and column trimmed dormer that are Colonial Revival in style. The
house is two-and-a-half stories in height and has a side gable roof. There is a cross-gable on the east façade with an oriel window at first floor level, and adjacent to it the side
gable roof extends to first story level to create an open porch. This is an elevation that was repeated a half-dozen times in Northampton in its various neighborhoods. 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.
In 1919 when the directories first list houses by address, this house was occupied by two families: James P. and Mary Foley and John J. O’Neil. Foley worked for the railroad and O’Neil
worked for the Florence Manufacturing Company. In 1930 the house was owned by Mary Foley, who had become a widow and Michael Murphy. Murphy was a mason. Both Mary Foley and Michael Murphy
continued to share the house in 1940. As the surnames suggest, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as this neighborhood developed, it was largely occupied by Irish immigrant
families most of whom were working class becoming middle class homeowners. 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.