Prospect Street 215.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-023-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 215 Prospect Street Historic Name:
The Gordon House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1870 Source: map of 1873 Style/Form: gable-and-wing form Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes
| | Date Acreage: 0.191 acres Setting: This house is set on a lot that has been well-landscaped to provide privacy on its busy street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [215 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 an uncommon form of the gable-and-wing house as the front-gable section is one-and-a-half stories and the wing
is a full two stories in height. It is usually the reverse. There is a two-story ell on the east. The clapboard-sided house has a hipped roof porch in the angle of its two sections.
The porch is screened in and its roof rests on Queen Anne style turned porch posts posts with scroll cut brackets at the eaves. The front-gabled section is three bays wide and its side
entry is sheltered by a pedimented portico on braces, a later alteration. Window sash in the house is 2/2. 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 neighborhood from the 1870s through the 1910s was
dominated by Irish and Scottish families. The occupants of this house were no exception as the Gordon family was here in 1873, a Mrs. Kilfy in 1884 and by 1895 Patrick and Mary Dumphy
were living here with their three adult children. Patrick and Mary had retired and two of their daughters were working as a milliner and as a dressmaker, contributing to the family,
no doubt. By 1910 Mary Guilfoile lived here. She was a widow and with her daughter Johanna and two sons, the Guilfoiles were in the house through 1940. Mary had the three children living
with her in 1900 and she worked as a washer woman, while the two sons worked as laborers. 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.