Prospect Street 291.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):
11/2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24C-003-001 NTH.272 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 291 Prospect Street Historic Name: Fred and Mary
Stockwell House Uses: Present: Three-family House Original: Single-family House Date of Construction: Circa 1840-1850 Source: map of 1860 Style/Form: Greek Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: brick/limestone; clapboard Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Dormer and wings added
ca. 1980. Condition: good Moved: no |x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.45 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot and is screened from the street by a hedge row and a maple tree.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [291 Prospect Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.272 ___ 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 in the gable-and-wing form. The front-gable section is two-and-a-half
stories and the wing on the east elevation is one-and-a-half stories; each is three bays wide. The red brick house has ornamental brickwork in the form of dentils at the raking eaves
and across the façade to create a pediment. The dentils extend as well across the wing at the cornice level. In the field of the pediment is a centered window with 6/1 sash. The façade
of the gable section has 6/6 window sash and the windows have limestone sills and lintels. A porch across the wing is supported on fretwork posts with diamond-shaped ornament, an unusual
design in Northampton. It has a standing seam metal roof with kick eaves that date it to the 1920s. Later additions of shed roof dormers, a wing and ell extension are clapboard-sided.
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 appears on the map of 1860 but is unnamed. In 1873 it is the F. A. Stockwell house. Fred A. and Mary Stockwell had three daughters and one son. Fred
was a retired merchant in 1870 and their house was worth $20,000, a not inconsiderable sum. By 1880 Fred had gone back to work as a grocer, had a second son and the family took in as
a boarder their store clerk. 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. U.S. Federal Censuses, 1870-1900.
Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.