Prospect Street 193.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-040-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 193 Prospect Street Historic Name:
M.C. Fennesey House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1884-1895 Source: maps of 1884 and 1895 Style/Form: late Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.158 acres Setting: This house faces east behind a white picket fence.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [193 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 two-story, shingled house that is L-shaped in plan. The roof has wide, thinly-boxed eaves in the Italianate
fashion. The west façade of the front-gabled section of the house is two bays wide at the first story. It has a side entry with an added portico on posts adjacent to a bay of paired,
2/2 sash windows. At the second story is a single pair of windows with 2/2 sash. The pairing of windows first was introduced during the Italianate stylistic period. The house has an
exterior wall chimney on its south wing elevation, which penetrates the eaves. The wing is a modest two bays wide. 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 1895 when the map of that year was drawn,
this house and the neighboring house at 183 Prospect Street both occupied the same lot and were owned by M.C. Fennesey. In 1884 only the house at 183 Prospect had been built, so between
the time of the two maps, this house was added to the lot. John and Margaret Fennesey were Irish immigrants who were listed in the federal census of 1870 as owning their own home, but
its location was not recorded. John was a railroad worker and he and Margaret had a son George. This neighbor hood was largely Irish at the time. By 1919 the house was no longer owned
owned by the Fenneseys who had been replaced by Royal and Annie Wilson. Royal was a knitter in the hosiery mill and Annie, a German immigrant was at home. The Wilsons themselves were
replaced by Michael Garvey in 1930 through 1940. Garvey was a carpenter. This section of Prospect Street was largely occupied by working class families. 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 Directories 1919-1940 U.S. Federal Censuses 1870-1930 Walker, George H. and Company.
Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.