155 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-323-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 155 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Edward and Delia Duvall House
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1900
Source: map of 1895
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.12 acres
Setting: This house occupies a corner lot that is bordered
by a picket fence.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [155 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.
The Duvall House is a two-and-a-half story Four Square with a Colonial Revival style, two-story porch on its west façade. The
house has a pyramidal hipped roof on which are hipped dormers. It is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep, is
sided in clapboards and has an asphalt shingle roof. There is a wing on the north elevation to add complexity to the Four
Square floor plan. A two-story porch under a hipped roof on the west façade is supported by Colonial Revival style Doric
columns on the first story where it is an open porch and on the second story it is framed by paneled pilasters and is glazed.
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.
Although Prospect Street was one of the earliest streets in Northampton this section of it did not develop until the mid-19th
century. It gradually filled in with house lots until shortly after 1895 a new street, Prospect Court was put in. This house was
constructed ca. 1900 -1910 and Edward Duvall was listed in 1919 as living here. He was a grocer in the business of Brown and
Duval. He was here with his wife Delia through 1940.
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.