Prospect Street 333.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 24A-162-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 333 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Herman Aldrich House Uses: Present: Three-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1900 Source: map of 1895 Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate and asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added, windows replaced, ca. 2005
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.205 acres Setting: This house is set back back slightly from the road on a lot that is raised. It faces Childs Park.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [333 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 Queen Anne style house with a gable-on-hip roof that has a cross-gable on the south
façade. There is a corner tower with a bell-shaped roof in the angle between the main block of the house and the cross-gable. It is three stories in height and is not fenestrated. The
front gable section of the house has an oriel window at the second story above a large picture window. The house is two bays wide and its door surround is a later alteration. It is the
form of the house rather than its current surface and fenestration that places it in the Queen Anne style. Its unusual roof form was a late feature of the style. 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.
’Prospect Heights,’ an area along Prospect Street between Hinckley (now known as Jackson) and North Elm Streets, was opened in the late 1890s for residential development. This development
was spurred by the opening of an electric railway line connecting this area to Northampton Center and to Florence Center. In 1895 the land on which this lot is on the north side of the
street was owned by Otis Maynard and had not yet been divided. An early directory listing at this address placed Heman Aldrich in the house. In 1920 Heman and Mabel Aldrich lived on
Hatfield Street, having moved to Northampton from Amherst, but they had moved here by 1930. Herman in 1930 listed his occupation as public utilities inspector. He and Mabel lived here
through 1942 when Heman’s draft card notes he works for Massachusetts Public Utilities. 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.