Prospect Street 226.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):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24D-229 Easthampton NTH.339 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 226 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Raymond E. and Alida Black House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1915 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne/Colonial
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.9 acre Setting: This house occupies a lot lot that slopes done to the southeast and has been terraced to accommodate that slope.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [226 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.339 ___ 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. The Raymond and Alida Black House is a two-and-a-half story house under a truncated hipped roof.
It has a cross-gable on the north façade, a two-story ell on the south, and a two-story, screened porch on the east. The house is a mixture of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles.
The hipped roof and full gable returns in the cross-gable are Colonial Revival features but the two porches are Queen Anne with their turned porch posts, brackets and spindled friezes.
The main body of the house is clapboard sided but the gable fields are shingled, a Queen Anne detail. 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. From Form B of 1980: “This house was built around the turn
of the century near King Street Brook crossing of Prospect Street. The area near this brook had not been developed until late in the 19th century because of its swampy nature, however,
around the turn of the century the brook was put underground and the resulting dry land was available for residential development. The house first appears on the 1915 atlas and is owned
and occupied by Raymond Black, chauffeur.” 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 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.