Prospect Street 177-179.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-059-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 177-179 Prospect Street Historic
Name: Uses: Present: Two-family house Original: Two-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1915 Source: Street Directories Style/Form: Colonial Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows replaced, ca. 2005 Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.115 acres Setting: This house faces west and is set close to the street in alignment with neighbors.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [177-179 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-family house designed in the Colonial Revival style. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a gambrel
roof that becomes a pent roof between first and second stories in the gable ends. On its west façade the roof has dormers on both of its slopes. On the lower slope are two shed roof
dormers in the outer two of its four bays. On the upper slope is a centered centered shed roof dormer between two un-fenestrated front-gables, which appear to be purely ornamental. On
the lower slope the center two bays are recessed so that there is not a lower slope of the roof. The vinyl-sided house is three bays wide and at the first story on the west façade has
a centered, shed-roofed porch flanked by two, shallow, three-sided bay windows. There are end wall chimneys that lace through the pent roof and the main roof in the gable ends of the
house. This is a fine decorative feature that was often used during the Craftsman style period during the first decade of the 20th century. 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 section of
Prospect Street, its northern section, did not develop until after the 1870s and gradually filled in through the 20th century. This house was in place by 1919 and was occupied by Rose
Casey, who was a teacher and the Bishop Brothers carpenters. It is likely that the Bishop Brothers were the builders of the house and owned one half of the building, using it as an office
since they were still there in 1930. By 1940 the house was occupied by George Blake, who was a salesman and John McCarthy who worked for a trucking, landscape and gardening company.
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.