10 Prospect Street
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FORM B − BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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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-202 Easthampton NTH.676
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 10 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Alexander McCallum House
Uses: Prsent: Smith College Building
Original: residence
Date of Construction: 1882-1883
Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles
Roof: slate, metal cresting
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: Good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.851 acres
Setting: This house occupies a broad lot on the
Smith campus that extends to the north side of Elm Street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [10 PROSPECT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.676
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The McCallum House is a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne style house with a slate-covered hipped roof from which projects a
cross gable on its north elevation. Centered on the five bay east façade is a projecting pedimented pavilion three stories in
height. It contains on the first story the main entrance with double leaf doors. A full width porch on Queen Anne turned posts
crosses the east façade and is a stacked porch with a second story portion, one bay wide under a shed roof supported on heavy
turned Queen Anne posts. At the third story level the pavilion has a pair of windows beneath the pediment whose field is filled
with ornamental fretwork. The house has a through-cornice, exterior wall chimney on its south elevation adjacent to a three-
sided bay. Cresting rail ornaments the roof ridge.
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: ”In 1882, Alexander McCallum purchased parcels of land and water rights to a well at the corner of Elm
and Prospect Streets from the heirs of Charles Talbot. His home was erected by 1884, as it is shown on the atlas of that year.
Mr. McCallum was born in Canada of Scotch parentage in 1843. He came to Northampton in 1866 and took a position
as clerk in the local store operated by H.L. Field, the brother of the more famous merchant Marshall Field. On Jan. 24, 1871, the
Hampshire Gazette reported ‘Mr. Alexander McCallum, for several years a popular clerk in one of our dry goods stores will ope n
a store in the new block opposite the Fitch Hotel on Shop Row.’ This business became one of the most prosperous in the state.
In 1883, Mr. McCallum went into the silk Hosiery business. By the early 20th century, the McCallum Hosiery Company, located
on West Street, had the largest such mill in the world.
In 1929, the property was acquired by Smith College and the lower floor was used as a Students’ club, with the upper
floors containing guest rooms. This continued until 1948, when the house became the Faculty Club House. After the
construction of the new Faculty Club on College Lane in 1960, this became faculty offices.”
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.
Registry of Deeds: Bk. 375-P.241, 243-273, 855-227