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Prospect Street 101.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: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year): April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-016-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 101 Prospect Street Historic Name: Ernest Schadee House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1910 Source: Street Directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Additions of wing and porch, ca. 1950. Condition: good Moved: no | | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.33 acres Setting: This house is set on a narrow lot behind a metal fence. It is shaded by a mature maple tree. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [101 Prospect Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH. ___ 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 is a Colonial Revival style house set sideways on its lot to take advantage of the southern exposure and to gain space on its narrow lot. The house is two-and-a-half stories in height and the main block is approximately five bays wide. The roof extends on the rear or north to first story level for a Colonial saltbox profile. There is an added wing on the east end of the south south façade and a partially enclosed shed roofed porch that covers the center entry. The shingle-sided house has a square bay window on its west elevation and dormers on the north side of the roof at second story and attic levels. 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. Ernest Schadee is listed in the 1910 street directory for Northampton as living in this house and continuing to live there through 1919. Schadee owned the Star Enameling Works in Northampton. He was followed in the house in 1930 by Smith College Professor Roy Welch and then in 1940 by Smith College Professor Pauline Burt. 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.