397 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): March, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
24A-133 Easthampton NTH.267
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 397 Prospect Street
Historic Name: C.M. Kinney House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1861
Source: Hampshire Gazette 8/6/1861
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: William Fenno Pratt, architect,
Northampton Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: brick/brownstone
Roof: metal
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Wing added on east, ca. 1960
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.521 acre
Setting: This house occupies a corner lot at an
intersection of three streets.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [397 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 Kinney House is a two story Italianate style house under a low, hipped roof with bracket-supported eaves for an Italian villa
appearance. The main block of the house is L-shaped in plan and has a wraparound porch that crosses its south façade. The
porch rests on fluted posts and was a later addition to the house. Ornamental metal grilles in the frieze beneath the eaves are
features found in the higher style Italianate buildings. The paired brackets at the eaves are more common but distinctly
Italianate. The red brick building has brownstone sills and lintels and in the front ell at the second story level the linte l is a
double arch above a pair of segmentally arched window sash. There is an exterior wall chimney on the west and a one story
wing on the east.
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.
From Form B of 1976: “William Fenno Pratt designed this two story brick residence which was built on the outskirts of
Northampton in 1861 for C.M. Kinney. The land was a farm property (Kinney owned a house on Phillips Place prior to this time)
near Dr. Denniston’s water cure (the present site of the Cooley Dickinson Hospital).”
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.