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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
24A-163-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 329 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Max Goldwasser House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
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:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.309 acres
Setting: The Goldwasser House is located on a
rise in the landscape and has a large side lot screened from
the street by a lattice fence.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [329 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 with a front-gable roof whose eaves make returns in the form of a pent roof across the gable
end of the building. The house is Late Colonial Revival style with a full-width porch across the south façade supported on
columns and a three-sided bay window on the east elevation. Indicating its late date, the house is only two bays wide. It has a
broad entrance and a single large, fixed-light window on the south façade. Trim is minimal giving the house a spare and modern
appearance.
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.
’Prospect Heights,’ an area along Prospect Street between Hinckley (now known as Jackson) and North Elm Streets, was
opened in the late 1890s for residential development. This development was spurred by the opening of an electric railway line
connecting this area to Northampton Center and to Florence Center.
In 1930 this house appears in the street directories as in the ownership of Max and Lena Goldwasser, who owned a women’s
clothing store. Max managed the store and Lena was a salesperson. Max was a Polish immigrant and Lena was a Russian
immigrant. Their three sons Seymour, Robert and David were born in Passaic, New Jersey. With them lived Lena’s mother Ida
Alasker. By 1940 the house was owned by Charles and Bertha Rhoades. Charles worked as a machinist in the hosiery factory.
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.