Prospect Street 274.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 24C-17 Easthampton NTH.276 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 274 Prospect Street Historic Name:
James Lyons House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1892-1895 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne 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: 0.162 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot at a busy intersection in a largely residential section.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [274 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.276 ___ 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-and-a-half story Queen Anne style house under a front-gable roof. It has a south
ell of two stories and a cross-gable bay of two-and-a-half stories on its west elevation. The house has a shed roofed porch on chamfered Queen Anne posts with brackets at the eaves on
the north façade. On the west elevation in the angle between the ell and the cross-gable bay is a secondary porch under a shed roof. It also has chamfered porch posts. Half of the porch
has been enclosed. The house has pedimented dormers on the east and west elevations to add interior volume. The exterior has clapboards on the first and second stories and decorative
shingles in the gable fields, as was typical of the Queen Anne. 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: “In 1892, Michael Lyons, a policeman, and his wife Mary, purchased about
1/3 of an acre at the corner of Prospect Street and Massasoit Street for $700. By 1895, Mr. Lyons had divided the land in half, selling the northern half, at the intersection to James
Lyons, a polisher at the Central Oilgas Stove Co. in Florence, and keeping the southern half on Massasoit Street for himself. The 1895 atlas shows houses for both of these lots, and
also shows that his area along Prospect Street had become very Irish in character.” 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. Registry
of Deeds: Bk. 449-P. 27