Prospect Street 341.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 24A-160 Easthampton NTH.268 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 341 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Mrs. Daniel Whalen House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1895-1900 Source: Atlas and Directory Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2005.
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.164 acres Setting: This house house is set on a rise in the landscape and its side yard is screened from the street by a wood
fence.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [341 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.268 ___ 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 Mrs. Daniel Whalen House is a Queen Anne style house that is late in the stylistic period so
its form is simplified. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof. It has a full width porch across its two-bay façade and the porch is supported on Colonial Revival
style Doric columns, a borrowing from a style contemporary with the Queen Anne in 1900. The house has a three-sided bay window on the east elevation which adds some volume to the interior.
The eaves of the front gable make full returns to form a pent roof and create a pediment on the south. There is a single, centered window in the pediment and sash in the house is replacement
1/1. 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: “’Prospect Heights,’ an area along Prospect Street between Hinckley (now known as Jackson) and North Elm Streets, was opened in the
late 1890’s for residential development. This development was spurred by the opening of an electric railway line connecting this area to the center of town and Florence. This house was
built by 1900 as Mrs. Daniel Whalen is listed at this address in the directory of that year. During the early 20th century, about 15 houses were built on ‘Prospect Heights’ all on the
north side of the street. Across the street was the Watson estate, later to become Childs Park.” 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.