Prospect Street 220.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-231-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 220 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Romeo and Olivine Pontbriand House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1920 Source: Street Directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.13 acres Setting: This house is in a residential neighborhood on a busy street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [220 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-and-a-half story house under a side-gable roof on whose facade is centered a hipped roof, cross-gable.
The house has a full-width, hipped-roof porch on its east façade that is Colonial Revival in style, supported by Doric columns. The house has clapboards on the first story and shingles
on the second, typical of a late Colonial Revival style building. It has a center center chimney. 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. Built between 1919 and 1930, this house was part of the development
of northern Prospect Street in the early 20th century. Its first owners, according to directories, were Romeo and Olivine Pontbriand. Romeo who worked, as did a number of his neighbors,
as a knitter at the P-McCallum Hosiery factory. The Pontbriands had five sons and a daughter and continued to live in the house through 1940. Both had been born in Massachusetts but
their parents were French Canadian. The neighborhood of north Prospect Street at the turn of the century was largely Irish and Scottish immigrants but several households of French Canadian
heritage as well. 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.