226 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): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
24D-229 Easthampton NTH.339
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 226 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Raymond E. and Alida Black House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1895-1915
Source: Atlases
Style/Form: Queen Anne/Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.9 acre
Setting: This house occupies a lot that slopes
done to the southeast and has been terraced to
accommodate that slope.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [226 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.
The Raymond and Alida Black House is a two-and-a-half story house under a truncated hipped roof. It has a cross-gable on the
north façade, a two-story ell on the south, and a two-story, screened porch on the east. The house is a mixture of Queen Anne
and Colonial Revival styles. The hipped roof and full gable returns in the cross-gable are Colonial Revival features but the two
porches are Queen Anne with their turned porch posts, brackets and spindled friezes. The main body of the house is clapboard
sided but the gable fields are shingled, a Queen Anne detail.
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.
From Form B of 1980: “This house was built around the turn of the century near King Street Brook crossing of Prospect Street.
The area near this brook had not been developed until late in the 19th century because of its swampy nature, however, around
the turn of the century the brook was put underground and the resulting dry land was available for residential development.
The house first appears on the 1915 atlas and is owned and occupied by Raymond Black, chauffeur.”
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.