Prospect Street 301.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 24C-002-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 301 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Charles and Helen Dean House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1920 Source: Street Directories Style/Form: Bungalow Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: weatherboard, shingles Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x
| yes | | Date Acreage: 0.179 acres Setting: This house occupies a tree-shaded corner lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [301 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 one-and-a-half story bungalow with an integral garage, a relatively uncommon and early example of the attachment
of a garage to a house. The bungalow is a front-dormer type, the large, hipped-roof dormer being centered on the south façade roof. The porch across the south façade rests on half-length,
paired columns above a solid railing of weatherboard. The first story of the house is also weatherboard-sided and its gables are shingled. The south façade is three bays wide and has
a center door flanked by a stair window on the east and a single sash window on the west. 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. ’Prospect Heights,’ an area along Prospect Street between Hinckley
(now known as Jackson) and North Elm Streets, was opened in the late 1890s for residential development. This development was spurred by the opening of an electric railway line connecting
this area to the center of Northampton and to Florence’s center. This house was not in place in 1919 but was in 1930 occupied by Charles and Helen Dean. Charles was a Christian Science
practitioner. The Christian Science center was in downtown Northampton. He also worked in a silk mill as a statistician. The Deans remained in the house through 1940. 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.