223 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-016-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 223 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Lucy and Michael Garvey House
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1895
Source: map of 1895
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.124 acres
Setting: This house occupies a small, tree-shaded lot.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [223 Prospect Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
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owners/occupants played within the community.
The land on which this house was built was, as early as 1873, the alms house property of Northampton. In 1873 the alms house
was located to the northwest of this house, and according to the map of 1895 there was a house on this site added to the alm s
house property, presumably for an alms house manager. By 1919 its association with the alms house was over and it was
occupied by Michael Garvey, who was a house carpenter and his wife Lucy, their three children and a Danish lodger who was a
house painter. Katherine Garvey was next in 1930, though the relationship among the Garveys is not clear. She was a
washerwoman and kept a kennel as well and was here through 1940 with those two occupations. Lucy and Michael Garvey
were second generation Irish.
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.