Prospect Street 93.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 31B-17 Easthampton NTH.598 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 93 Prospect Street Historic Name: Uses:
Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1895 Source: Atlas and visual evidence Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior
Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles and copper Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added ca. 2000 Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.126 acres Setting: This house is set on a corner lot that slopes down to the east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [93 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.598 ___ 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 later version of the Colonial Revival style when the geometry of the building and its
ornament had been simplified. It is a two-and-a-half story building under a side-gable roof whose eaves make full returns in the gable ends to form pediments. It is a mere three bays
wide and there is a single dormer centered on the roof of the west façade. There is less concern with symmetry as well as ornament as the first story has a copper roofed bay window adjacent
to the center portico but not offset by another bay on the other side of the portico. The shed roofed portico itself has a standing seam copper roof and rests on slender columns. The
entry is typical of late Colonial Revival style as it is particularly broad and has wide, half-length sidelights. Above the portico at the second story is a triple window, which is the
modernized version of a Palladian window, simplified into three sashes. The dormer is set into the roof and has a segmentally arched pediment. 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: “There has been a house on this site since the early 19th century. Throughout that century, the property was listed as belonging to the French family but available directories
do not show any member of this family ever living on Prospect Street. The house shown on the 1895 atlas seems to have the proper outline.” 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.