182 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-238-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 182 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Foley-O’Neil House
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Two-family house
Date of Construction: post-1895
Source: map of 1895
Style/Form: Queen Anne/Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards/shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows replaced, ca. 2005
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.162 acres
Setting: This house is set on a high corner lot and
faces east.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [182 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 house is a good example of the mixture of Colonial Revival and Queen Anne styles. It has the mixed materials and
complex elevation of the Queen Anne, but the full gable returns, the Doric column-supported porch and column trimmed dormer
that are Colonial Revival in style. The house is two-and-a-half stories in height and has a side gable roof. There is a cross-
gable on the east façade with an oriel window at first floor level, and adjacent to it the side gable roof extends to first story level
to create an open porch. This is an elevation that was repeated a half-dozen times in Northampton in its various neighborhoods.
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.
In 1919 when the directories first list houses by address, this house was occupied by two families: James P. and Mary Foley and
John J. O’Neil. Foley worked for the railroad and O’Neil worked for the Florence Manufacturing Company. In 1930 the house
was owned by Mary Foley, who had become a widow and Michael Murphy. Murphy was a mason. Both Mary Foley and
Michael Murphy continued to share the house in 1940. As the surnames suggest, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as
this neighborhood developed, it was largely occupied by Irish immigrant families most of whom were working class becoming
middle class homeowners.
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.