Prospect Street 260.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 24C-015-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 260 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Daniel Lapan House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1915 Source: Street Directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival Four-Square
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: concrete Wall/Trim: stucco/shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.63 acres Setting: This house is set on a double-wide yard on a busy street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [260 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. The Lapan House is a fine example of the Four Square form house, a form that was part of the modernized Colonial Revival
style. That is, the Colonial Revival style was simplified and its forms made more cubic, square and uncomplicated. The house was given the common Colonial Revival treatment that differentiated
siding on the first and second stories – here, stucco and shingles – beneath a hipped roof with a center chimney and hipped roof dormer on its north façade. The side hall entry of the
north façade has a gabled portico of stucco piers supporting the roof with exposed rafters in Craftsman style. There is a secondary entry on the west elevation under a hipped roof hood
on brackets. The house has a one story ell of stucco and an added one-story ell section that is shingle-sided. The garage of stucco was built at the time of the house. 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.
Daniel and Mary Lapan who owned this house in 1919 made up a working class family as Daniel was an acid maker in the pulp section of a paper mill and Mary worked as brush inspector at
the Prophylactic Brush Company in Northampton. They had one son, Richard who was in school. By 1930 Alice and Wellington Barnes owned the house. Wellington was an office manager and
bookkeeper and Alice was at home. John Curran, a physician in Northampton, lived in the house in 1940. The move from working class owners to professionals in the 20th century is not
atypical of the demographics of this neighborhood. 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.