Prospect Street 353.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-157-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 353 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Dennis and Catherine Sullivan House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1920 Source: street directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Sullivan Construction, builders, attributed Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.338 acres Setting: This house occupies a large corner lot and faces Childs Park on the south.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [353 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 substantial brick Colonial Revival house that is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gambrel roof.
It is two bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep for a rectangular plan. There is a two-story flat-roofed wing on the west elevation. Pedimented dormers of unequal size are set
on the lower slope of the roof and there is a full-width porch across the south façade that rests on posts with respondent pilasters. The porch has a shallow pediment over its steps.
The brickwork of the house is ornamental with narrow brick frames and wide lintels at the windows and a three-point arch with a keystone at the attic level on the south façade in raised
brick. Within the arch is a band of three windows. The three-pointed arch is repeated on the garage’s center entry. 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. 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 north side
of the street was owned by Otis Maynard and had not yet been divided but the house was built and occupied in 1920 by Dennis and Catherine Sullivan and their five children. In 1930 the
house was still owned by the Sullivans. Sullivan was the owner of Sullivan Construction Company and the couple lived here with their three children and James’ mother Mary. 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.