Prospect Street 119.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 24D-182-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 119 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Austin and Lydia Guilford House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1870 Source: map of 1873 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt and copper Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Ell added on east, ca. 1980. Condition:
good Moved: no |x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.325 acres Setting: This house is on a lot that slopes down to the east. It has a picket fence at the sidewalk boundary and dense shrubbery
at its foundations.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [119 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 two-and-a-half story, Italianate style house that is two bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep and
has a three story ell on its east elevation. The house has thinly boxed, wide eaves that make returns, a wide frieze and cornerboards. It has on its west façade a two-story, three-sided
bay window adjacent to the entry. On the south elevation there is a side porch and a three-sided bay. 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. This house was owned by the same family for several decades.
In 1873 it was owned by Austin Guilford and his wife Lydia. Austin was a farmer and remained in the house in 1884. A person whose surname was Guilford was in the house in 1895 and in
1919 the house was owned by Frank and Carry Guilford. Frank Guilford was a farmer and also acted as a special policeman for Northampton. By 1930 Frank had died and the house was occupied
by his widow Carrie. By 1940 it was occupied by Olive and Ernest Driver. Ernest Driver, like many of his neighbors in the 1930s and 40s was a Smith College professor. 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. Northampton Street Directories 1919-1940 U.S. Federal Censuses 1900-1930 Walker,
George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.