Prospect Street 409.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-104 Easthampton NTH.266 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 409 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Frederick G. Jager House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1895 Source: Atlas and Directory Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards/shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.526 acre Setting: This house is set back from the street and is screened from view by a dense border of shrubbery and trees. It occupies a corner
lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [409 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.266 ___ 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, front-gable house with cross gables on the east and west and an
ell on the north for a Latin cross plan. The eaves of front-gabled section and of the cross gables make full returns to create pediments and are ornamented with dentil rows at the cornice
and eaves rake. The typanums of the pediments are shingled while the balance of the house is sided with clapboards. A porch on paired posts extends across the south façade. Two, exterior
wall chimneys punctuate the roof line and rise through the eaves on the east and west cross-gables. Window sash is 1/1. 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 1980: “The Jager family
is first known to have resided on this site in 1860. John Jager was employed by the Bay State Hardware Co. and his house is shown on the map of that year. After his demise, his widow
and three sons lived here. By 1895, the widow had died and two of the sons had built new houses on the homestead, apparently demolishing the older house in the process. This house was
occupied by Frederick Jager, a machinist who specialized in trimmings for musical instruments.” 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.