353 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-157-001 Easthampton NTH.
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 353 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Dennis and Catherine Sullivan House
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: ca. 1920
Source: street directories
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Sullivan Construction, builders,
attributed Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: brick
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.338 acres
Setting: This house occupies a large corner lot
and faces Childs Park on the south.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [353 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 substantial brick Colonial Revival house that is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gambrel roof. It is two
bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep for a rectangular plan. There is a two-story flat-roofed wing on the west
elevation. Pedimented dormers of unequal size are set on the lower slope of the roof and there is a full-width porch across the
south façade that rests on posts with respondent pilasters. The porch has a shallow pediment over its steps. The brickwork of
the house is ornamental with narrow brick frames and wide lintels at the windows and a three-point arch with a keystone at the
attic level on the south façade in raised brick. Within the arch is a band of three windows. The three-pointed arch is repeated on
the garage’s center entry.
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.
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 but the house was built and occupied in 1920 by Dennis and
Catherine Sullivan and their five children. In 1930 the house was still owned by the Sullivans. Sullivan was the owner of
Sullivan Construction Company and the couple lived here with their three children and James’ mother Mary.
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.