Prospect Street 163.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-215-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 163 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Three-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1900 Source: map of 1895 Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added, windows replaced, ca. 2005 Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.138 acres Setting: Set on a corner lot, this house is shaded by a mature tree and shrubbery.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [163 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 modest version of the Queen Anne style. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof with
a cross-gable on the south and a side porch in the angle between the main block and the cross-gable on the south. The house has been vinyl sided and its windows replaced, so much of
its character has been lost. About the only detail remaining from its Queen Anne origins are the turned posts on its west façade porch. 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 and its neighbor
at 169 Prospect Street were built on the lot of a single house that was present on the map of 1895. Shortly after 1895, the street called Prospect Court was put in place and this house
was constructed. In 1919 it was occupied by three families: that of Sonen Anderson who worked for the federal government, presumably the Veterans Administration, Henry Sullivan who worked
for the railroad and Michael Garvey who was a carpenter. By 1930 Henry Sullivan was living here solely suggesting that the house acted more as a boarding house than a three family ca.
1900. Sullivan was here through 1940. 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.