206 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-234-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 206 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Mrs. L. Clapp House
Uses: Present: Two-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1870
Source: map of 1873
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: parged brick
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Porch enclosed and bay window inserted, ca. 2000;
Windows replaced, ca. 2008
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.2 acres
Setting: This house faces east and is set on a rise
in the landscape – the foot of Round Hill.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [206 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 one-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof. The house has an added front porch in the Queen Anne style with
turned posts and a spindle frieze at the eaves. It has been partially enclosed. The house is wood shingle sided and has no
particular decorative detail dating from the 1870s.
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 in place by 1873 when it appears to have been owned by the surname Dunneran, however, the name is
somewhat illegible. By 1884 Mrs. L. Clapp was living in the house in a neighborhood of Irish immigrants. Lydia Clapp in 1880
lived with her three adult children, one of whom was listed on the census as being insane, and she took in two boarders who
worked as laborers. By 1895 the Clapps had been replaced by William and Agnes Campbell and their three children. The
Campbells had emigrated from Scotland and William worked as a machinist. By 1919 the house was occupied by Michael Daley
who worked, as did a number of men in this neighborhood, for the railroad. George Button was in the house in 1930-1940.
Button was also a railroad employee, working as a machinist for the railroad.
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.
Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884.
Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.