Prospect Street 397.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):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24A-133 Easthampton NTH.267 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 397 Prospect Street Historic Name:
C.M. Kinney House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1861 Source: Hampshire Gazette 8/6/1861 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
William Fenno Pratt, architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone Roof: metal Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Wing added on east, ca. 1960 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.521 acre Setting: This house occupies a corner lot at an intersection of three streets.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [397 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.267 ___ 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 Kinney House is a two story Italianate style house under a low, hipped roof with bracket-supported
eaves for an Italian villa appearance. The main block of the house is L-shaped in plan and has a wraparound porch that crosses its south façade. The porch rests on fluted posts and was
a later addition to the house. Ornamental metal grilles in the frieze beneath the eaves are features found in the higher style Italianate buildings. The paired brackets at the eaves
are more common but distinctly Italianate. The red brick building has brownstone sills and lintels and in the front ell at the second story level the lintel is a double arch above a
pair of segmentally arched window sash. There is an exterior wall chimney on the west and a one story wing on the east. 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. From Form B of 1976: “William Fenno Pratt
designed this two story brick residence which was built on the outskirts of Northampton in 1861 for C.M. Kinney. The land was a farm property (Kinney owned a house on Phillips Place
prior to this time) near Dr. Denniston’s water cure (the present site of the Cooley Dickinson Hospital).” 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.