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206 Prospect Street Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph 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 Continuation sheet 1 NTH. ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. 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.