Prospect Street 425.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-102 Easthampton NTH.264 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 425 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Children’s Home Uses: Present: Single-family residence and funeral home Original: Children’s Home Date of Construction: 1914-1915 Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette Style/Form: Tudor Revival
Architect/Builder: Karl Scott Putnam, Architect, Northampton Exterior Material: Foundation: stone Wall/Trim: stucco Roof: slater Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Original entry replaced with glass storefront system, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.402 acre Setting: This house occupies a broad lot
at the intersection of several busy streets.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [425 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.264 ___ 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 Children’s Home designed by Karl Scott Putnam is a version of the Tudor Revival style that
was rather uncommon as it is stucco-sided and does not have the half timbering or other decorative devices often used in the Tudor Revival. Rather, Karl Scott Putnam was following the
lead of English architect Edwin Lutyens who created modernistic buildings by simplifying the geometry of the Tudor. The two-and-a-half story building has two cross-gables, one at either
end of the center hipped roof section of the building. Steeply-pitched, the cross gables are typical of the Tudor style. Typical as well, is the fieldstone-sided chimney on the east
elevation that rises through the eaves to become stucco-sided. The building’s fine original entry was replaced by a glass storefront when the building was converted to funeral home use.
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: “This large stuccoed building was originally constructed as the Hampshire County Children’s Home. This Association had first opened a house
for unfortunate children on Arlington Street in a converted residence in 1910. Three years later, this land at the corner of Prospect and North Elm Streets was donated to the Association
and the present building erected during 1914 at a cost of $10,000. The building was erected from designs of Karl Scott Putnam, Northampton’s most prominent architect of the first half
of the 20th century. Mr. Putnam was the son of Roswell F. Putnam, a well known architect of the turn-of-the-century period and after interning at the office of Edward Tilton in New York,
joined his father in practice about 1910. The elder Putnam died in 1911 and the son carried on the practice by himself. In the early 1920’s, Mr. Putnam became a professor of architecture
at Smith College, a position he held for over forty years.” 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 of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.