Old South Street 73.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date
(month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31D-223 Easthampton NTH.2006 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 73 Old South Street
Historic Name: William F. Prindle House Uses: Present: Five unit residence Original: Single family Date of Construction: 1875-1884 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Clapboard Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): -Portico, mid 20th century
-Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.496 acres Setting: House sits fairly close close to the busy Old South Street. Property in a transitional area that now includes
businesses, apartments and condominiums in former single family homes.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [73 OLD SOUTH STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.2006 ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much
space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate
the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This Italianate style home is two stories in height with flat roof, projecting molded cornice,
and frieze with decorative ventilating grilles. The three-bay facade has a two-story gabled pavilion at its center. The pavilion has an attic vent in the gable field with peaked lintel.
In front of the pavilion is a gabled front entry porch with metal supports and railing, which are 20th century alterations. The front door has a flat stick surround with wide transom
and half-length side lights. Most of the windows have been replaced with one over one sashes, but a couple of two over two sash windows remain although they are slightly hidden behind
metal storm windows. Windows on the front façade have an architrave surround and projecting lintels. Both east and west elevations of the home have two story paneled bays. There is a
wide two story rear ell off the northern elevation. 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: “In l875 William Prindle bought part of Elijah Kinsley's homestead that fronted South
Street. Mr. Prindle had a store on Main St. and was a stove dealer, plumber, steam and gas fitter, and drain pipe installer. He died in the mid l880's and the property passed to Henry
Williams, vice-president of the Williams Mfg. Company, basket manufacturers on Smith St. in Northampton.” 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 405-P. 357, 404-505, 3l6-70, 293-253. Northampton Directory: 1885-86, 1895-96.