260 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
24C-015-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 260 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Daniel Lapan House
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1915
Source: Street Directories
Style/Form: Colonial Revival Four-Square
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: concrete
Wall/Trim: stucco/shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.63 acres
Setting: This house is set on a double-wide yard
on a busy street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [260 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 Lapan House is a fine example of the Four Square form house, a form that was part of the modernized Colonial Revival
style. That is, the Colonial Revival style was simplified and its forms made more cubic, square and uncomplicated. The house
was given the common Colonial Revival treatment that differentiated siding on the first and second stories – here, stucco and
shingles – beneath a hipped roof with a center chimney and hipped roof dormer on its north façade. The side hall entry of the
north façade has a gabled portico of stucco piers supporting the roof with exposed rafters in Craftsman style. There is a
secondary entry on the west elevation under a hipped roof hood on brackets. The house has a one story ell of stucco and an
added one-story ell section that is shingle-sided. The garage of stucco was built at the time of the house.
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.
Daniel and Mary Lapan who owned this house in 1919 made up a working class family as Daniel was an acid maker in the pulp
section of a paper mill and Mary worked as brush inspector at the Prophylactic Brush Company in Northampton. They had one
son, Richard who was in school. By 1930 Alice and Wellington Barnes owned the house. Wellington was an office manager
and bookkeeper and Alice was at home. John Curran, a physician in Northampton, lived in the house in 1940. The move from
working class owners to professionals in the 20th century is not atypical of the demographics of this neighborhood.
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.