333 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
24A-162-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 333 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Herman Aldrich House
Uses: Present: Three-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1900
Source: map of 1895
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: slate and asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added, windows replaced, ca. 2005
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.205 acres
Setting: This house is set back slightly from the road on a
lot that is raised. It faces Childs Park.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [333 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 Queen Anne style house with a gable-on-hip roof that has a cross-gable on the south façade.
There is a corner tower with a bell-shaped roof in the angle between the main block of the house and the cross-gable. It is three
stories in height and is not fenestrated. The front gable section of the house has an oriel window at the second story above a
large picture window. The house is two bays wide and its door surround is a later alteration. It is the form of the house rather
than its current surface and fenestration that places it in the Queen Anne style. Its unusual roof form was a late feature of the
style.
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 1895 the land on which this lot is on the north side of the
street was owned by Otis Maynard and had not yet been divided. An early directory listing at this address placed Heman Aldrich
in the house. In 1920 Heman and Mabel Aldrich lived on Hatfield Street, having moved to Northampton from Amherst, but the y
had moved here by 1930. Herman in 1930 listed his occupation as public utilities inspector. He and Mabel lived here through
1942 when Heman’s draft card notes he works for Massachusetts Public Utilities.
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.