69-81 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
31B-88 Easthampton NTH.615
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 69-81 Prospect Street
Historic Name: Prospect Apartments
Uses: Present: Apartments
Original: Apartments
Date of Construction: 1928-1930
Source: Directory & Springfield Daily Republican
Style/Form: Tudor Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: brick/limestone
Roof: copper and other
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows replaced, ca. 2000.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.801
Setting: This apartment block faces west and is in
a neighborhood of what were predominantly single-family
residences but may now be divided.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [69-81 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 Tudor Revival style apartment block four stories in height under a flat roof. It is brick with limestone window sills,
surrounds and stringcourse between first and second floors. Its twelve bay length is broken up by ornamental brickwork
projecting slightly from the plane of the façade, by copper tiled roofing and copper sided oriel windows. It has two modest
entrances on the west façade with shed roof hoods on braces and one on the south elevation as well. Mock half -timbering on
the hoods further elaborates the building as Tudor Revival. Whereas the 1900 apartment block at 36 Bedford Terrace is Tudor
Revival as well, this apartment block several decades later represents the style in its late form.
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 1980: “This large block of 32 apartments was built in 1928-29 by Albert Gagnier at a cost of $128,000. Mr.
Gagnier was a prominent apartment builder in the larger cities of the lower valley: Springfield, Chicopee, and Holyoke.”
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.