244 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-225-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 244 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Mrs. Hogan House
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1890
Source: map of 1895
Style/Form: Queen Anne
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: 0.193 acres
Setting: This house is set on a high lot above the
street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [244 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 fine example of the Queen Anne style. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a front gable roof made more complex
by cross-gables on east and west and a stacked porch on the north. The house is clapboard sided on the first and second
stories and in the gable fields it is shingled. The porch on the north façade is full-width at the first floor level and is stacked with
a second story portion, one bay wide at the second floor. The porch supports are turned posts with brackets at the eaves. The
second floor section of the porch has a pedimented roof whose field is also shingled. Window sash is 2/2.
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.
Annie Hogan and her five children lived in this house in 1900. Annie was an immigrant from Ireland, though all her children were
born in Massachusetts. Julia and Mary worked as winder and a braider at the silk mill, John and James worked as day laborers
in the brush shop, and Timothy was in school. Annie, a widow, kept the house. By 1919 the Hogans had left the house and it
was occupied by Mrs. Christine Doane and Carl and Helen Gustafson through 1940. Carl was a carpenter. By 1940 Carl had
retired.
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.