220 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-231-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 220 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Romeo and Olivine Pontbriand House
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1920
Source: Street Directories
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.13 acres
Setting: This house is in a residential neighborhood on a
busy street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [220 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 two-and-a-half story house under a side-gable roof on whose facade is centered a hipped roof, cross-gable. The house
has a full-width, hipped-roof porch on its east façade that is Colonial Revival in style, supported by Doric columns. The house
has clapboards on the first story and shingles on the second, typical of a late Colonial Revival style building. It has a center
chimney.
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.
Built between 1919 and 1930, this house was part of the development of northern Prospect Street in the early 20th century. Its
first owners, according to directories, were Romeo and Olivine Pontbriand. Romeo who worked, as did a number of his
neighbors, as a knitter at the P-McCallum Hosiery factory. The Pontbriands had five sons and a daughter and continued to live
in the house through 1940. Both had been born in Massachusetts but their parents were French Canadian. The neighborhood
of north Prospect Street at the turn of the century was largely Irish and Scottish immigrants but several households of French
Canadian heritage as well.
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.