345 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-159-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 345 Prospect Street
Historic Name: John and Melissa Boudo House
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1920
Source: Street Directories
Style/Form: eclectic
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboard
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.164 acres
Setting: This house is shaded by a large red maple and
faces south to Childs Park.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [345 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 an eclectic house stylistically. It is two-and-a-half stories under a gambrel roof, which is generally an indication of a
Colonial Revival style, but the steeply-pitched cross-gable on its south façade is Tudor Revival in style. The house has a
pedimented porch on posts and Colonial Revival style window sash with a diamond-shaped center pane. Like many of its
contemporary neighbors it is only two bays wide and has a picture window at the first floor level.
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. By 1930 the house was in place and its occupants were John
and Melissa Boudo and their three children. John and Melissa worked together at the Daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper.
John was a printer and Melissa was a linotype operator. They lived here through 1942.
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.