Prospect Street 329.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 24A-163-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 329 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Max Goldwasser House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1920 Source: Street Directories Style/Form: 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: 0.309 acres Setting: The Goldwasser House is located on on a rise in the landscape and has a large side lot screened from the street by a lattice fence.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [329 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 two-and-a-half story house with a front-gable roof whose eaves make returns in the form of a pent roof across
the gable end of the building. The house is Late Colonial Revival style with a full-width porch across the south façade supported on columns and a three-sided bay window on the east
elevation. Indicating its late date, the house is only two bays wide. It has a broad entrance and a single large, fixed-light window on the south façade. Trim is minimal giving the house
a spare and modern appearance. 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 Northampton Center and to Florence Center.
In 1930 this house appears in the street directories as in the ownership of Max and Lena Goldwasser, who owned a women’s clothing store. Max managed the store and Lena was a salesperson.
Max was a Polish immigrant and Lena was a Russian immigrant. Their three sons Seymour, Robert and David were born in Passaic, New Jersey. With them lived Lena’s mother Ida Alasker. By
1940 the house was owned by Charles and Bertha Rhoades. Charles worked as a machinist in the hosiery 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.