Prospect Street 268.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-016-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 268 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Francis Stenson House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1890 Source: map of 1895 Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards/shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Shed roof addition, ca. 1980 Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.261 acres Setting: This house is shaded by a large maple tree. It is located on a busy street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [268 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 late Colonial Revival style house. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a hipped
roof on which are hipped roof dormers on each elevation. The main block of the house is shingled and is only two bays wide. It has a full-width porch across the north façade. The porch
has a hipped roof that rests on large posts. Typical of the late Colonial Revival Revival the façade has a broad trabeated entry with sidelights and a three-part window composition.
On the north façade windows are paired under a single capped lintel and elsewhere they have capped lintels over single sash. There is a rondel stair window on the east elevation. That
elevation also has a shed roofed, one-story addition that is clapboard sided. Sash in the house is 1/1 replacement. 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 first appears on the map of
1895 as the J. Powers house and by 1919 is occupied by Francis and Mary Stenson and their son William. Francis worked for the City although he had in 1900 worked as a mason, and William
worked as a hod carrier, presumably working to carry mortar with his father. All three of the Stensons were Irish immigrants and they lived in a neighborhood with a large Irish and Scottish
population. By 1910 Francis was working in a cutlery factory and William has left the household to be replaced by his brother John. Ralph and Muriel Jager followed the Stensons in the
house. Ralph had lived with his parents on Dryads Green in 1920 but by 1930 had married and he and his father worked together as partners in an automotive garage. Ralph’s father William
lived with the couple along with their two sons. The house turned over by 1940 and was owned by W. H. McCarthy who owned a business college. 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.