193 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-040-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 193 Prospect Street
Historic Name: M.C. Fennesey House
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1884-1895
Source: maps of 1884 and 1895
Style/Form: late Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: shingles
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.158 acres
Setting: This house faces east behind a white
picket fence.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [193 Prospect Street]
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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-story, shingled house that is L-shaped in plan. The roof has wide, thinly-boxed eaves in the Italianate fashion. The
west façade of the front-gabled section of the house is two bays wide at the first story. It has a side entry with an added portico
on posts adjacent to a bay of paired, 2/2 sash windows. At the second story is a single pair of windows with 2/2 sash. The
pairing of windows first was introduced during the Italianate stylistic period. The house has an exterior wall chimney on its south
wing elevation, which penetrates the eaves. The wing is a modest two bays wide.
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 1895 when the map of that year was drawn, this house and the neighboring house at 183 Prospect Street both occupied the
same lot and were owned by M.C. Fennesey. In 1884 only the house at 183 Prospect had been built, so between the time of the
two maps, this house was added to the lot. John and Margaret Fennesey were Irish immigrants who were listed in the federal
census of 1870 as owning their own home, but its location was not recorded. John was a railroad worker and he and Margaret
had a son George. This neighbor hood was largely Irish at the time. By 1919 the house was no longer owned by the Fenneseys
who had been replaced by Royal and Annie Wilson. Royal was a knitter in the hosiery mill and Annie, a German immigrant was
at home. The Wilsons themselves were replaced by Michael Garvey in 1930 through 1940. Garvey was a carpenter. This
section of Prospect Street was largely occupied by working class families.
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 Directories 1919-1940
U.S. Federal Censuses 1870-1930
Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884.
Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.