Prospect Street 183.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-041-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 183-185 Prospect Street Historic
Name: M. Finnessey House Uses: Present: Three-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1850 Source: map of 1860 Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | | yes
| | Date Acreage: 0.13 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot and is shaded by a large tree and s
hrubbery.INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [183 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 fine example of the vernacular Italianate style in Northampton. It is a gable-and-wing
form house. The gable section is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof and the wing section is one-and-a-half stories in height under a side-gable roof. Roof eaves
make deep returns. A Colonial Revival style porch connects the two sections of the house across the west façade. It is supported by Doric columns and would have been a later addition
or alteration to an original porch. The roof eaves of the house are wide and thinly boxed and in the gable field is a rondel window that appears on a number of similarly dated house
on Prospect Street. Each section of the house is three bays wide and windows and doors have capped surrounds whose cornices project from the plane of the façade. First floor windows
are slightly elongated, but not the full length that would have marked a high style version of the Italianate style. There is a side entry on the gable section and a secondary entry
in the wing. The wing has a shed roof dormer on its west façade. 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 in place by 1860 and appears on the map of that year. By 1873 it was in the ownership
of D. Bachman or Byckman (the name is illegible) and by 1884 it was owned by M. Finnessey. The house had changed hands again in 1895. By 1919 it was owned by Eugene Sullivan who was
employed at the Northampton Engineering Company. Sullivan was replaced by 1930 by Patrick and Mary Brennan and their six children and one niece. The Brennan children had been born in
Massachusetts but Patrick, Mary and their niece were Irish immigrants. Patrick worked for the City of Northampton. The Brennans in 1940 were gone and Mrs. Sullivan, a widow, owned the
house. 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.