119 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): April, 2011
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
24D-182-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 119 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Austin and Lydia Guilford House
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1870
Source: map of 1873
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt and copper
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Ell added on east, ca. 1980.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.325 acres
Setting: This house is on a lot that slopes down to
the east. It has a picket fence at the sidewalk boundary and
dense shrubbery at its foundations.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [119 Prospect Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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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, Italianate style house that is two bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep and has a three
story ell on its east elevation. The house has thinly boxed, wide eaves that make returns, a wide frieze and cornerboards. It has
on its west façade a two-story, three-sided bay window adjacent to the entry. On the south elevation there is a side porch and a
three-sided bay.
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.
This house was owned by the same family for several decades. In 1873 it was owned by Austin Guilford and his wife Lydia.
Austin was a farmer and remained in the house in 1884. A person whose surname was Guilford was in the house in 1895 and in
1919 the house was owned by Frank and Carry Guilford. Frank Guilford was a farmer and also acted as a special policeman for
Northampton. By 1930 Frank had died and the house was occupied by his widow Carrie. By 1940 it was occupied by Olive and
Ernest Driver. Ernest Driver, like many of his neighbors in the 1930s and 40s was a Smith College professor.
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.
Northampton Street Directories 1919-1940
U.S. Federal Censuses 1900-1930
Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884.
Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.