163 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-215-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 163 Prospect Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Four-family residence
Original: Three-family residence
Date of Construction: ca. 1900
Source: map of 1895
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added, windows replaced, ca. 2005
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.138 acres
Setting: Set on a corner lot, this house is shaded
by a mature tree and shrubbery.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [163 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 modest version of the Queen Anne style. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof with a cross-gable
on the south and a side porch in the angle between the main block and the cross-gable on the south. The house has been vinyl
sided and its windows replaced, so much of its character has been lost. About the only detail remaining from its Queen Anne
origins are the turned posts on its west façade porch.
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 and its neighbor at 169 Prospect Street were built on the lot of a single house that was present on the map of 1895.
Shortly after 1895, the street called Prospect Court was put in place and this house was constructed. In 1919 it was occupied by
three families: that of Sonen Anderson who worked for the federal government, presumably the Veterans Administration, Henry
Sullivan who worked for the railroad and Michael Garvey who was a carpenter. By 1930 Henry Sullivan was living here solely
suggesting that the house acted more as a boarding house than a three family ca. 1900. Sullivan was here 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.