93 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-17 Easthampton NTH.598
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 93 Prospect Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Three-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: c. 1895
Source: Atlas and visual evidence
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: vinyl
Roof: asphalt shingles and copper
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added ca. 2000
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.126 acres
Setting: This house is set on a corner lot that
slopes down to the east.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [93 PROSPECT STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.598
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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 later version of the Colonial Revival style when the geometry of the building and its ornament had been simplified. It is
a two-and-a-half story building under a side-gable roof whose eaves make full returns in the gable ends to form pediments. It is
a mere three bays wide and there is a single dormer centered on the roof of the west façade. There is less concern with
symmetry as well as ornament as the first story has a copper roofed bay window adjacent to the center portico but not offset by
another bay on the other side of the portico. The shed roofed portico itself has a standing seam copper roof and rests on
slender columns. The entry is typical of late Colonial Revival style as it is particularly broad and has wide, half-length sidelights.
Above the portico at the second story is a triple window, which is the modernized version of a Palladian window, simplified into
three sashes. The dormer is set into the roof and has a segmentally arched pediment.
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: “There has been a house on this site since the early 19th century. Throughout that century, the property
was listed as belonging to the French family but available directories do not show any member of this family ever living on
Prospect Street. The house shown on the 1895 atlas seems to have the proper outline.”
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.