Prospect Street 222.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-230-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 224 Prospect Street Historic Name:
David and Jenny Simison House Uses: Present: Three-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1895 Source: map of 1895 Style/Form: Colonial Revival/French Second
Empire Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards and shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with
dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.476 acres Setting: This house house occupies a slightly elevated lot that is shaded by mature trees.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [222 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 a Colonial Revival style house but has an eccentric architectural feature – a mansard roof.
The use of a mansard roof was infrequent after about 1880, so its appearance on a Colonial Revival house is unusual. The house is two bays wide and it has an enclosed entry within its
full-width porch. Doric columns support the flat roof of the porch and are connected by square profile railing balusters. The house is clapboard on the first story and shingles above
and there is a slight jetty between stories, typical of the Colonial Revival. Dormers on the roof are pedimented. There is a two-story enclosed porch under a shed roof on the east elevation,
the second story of which may have acted as a sleeping 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 had a relatively uncomplicated history of ownership. Built by 1895, its first owners
were David and Jennie Simison. David was the child of Irish immigrants and Jennie’s parents had been born in New England. David worked as a clerk in the Post Office, which he continued
to do through 1920. That year they had taken in a boarder who was a telephone operator and Jennie’s mother had moved in with them. By 1930 the couple had an 8 year old son, Jennie’s
mother and the boarder had left and David changed his job to that of a shipper in a cutlery factory. 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.